UKIPO fees to increase from 1st April 2026

The UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) has announced that official fees for patents, trade marks and registered industrial designs will increase as of 1 April 2026. This marks the first significant fee adjustment at the UKIPO in many years. The fees have not increased since 2018 for patents, 2016 for designs and 1998 for trade marks.

Average level of fee increases

Fees will increase by an average of 25%. The increase is most significant for patent related fees, at about 33% on average. The fees for trade marks and registered designs will be increasing by about 23% on average. The fee increase concerns both filing fees and renewal fees.

Impact on clients

This will affect many of our client’s who, partly due to Brexit, owns national rights in the United Kingdom. In cases where renewal fees are due soon after the fee increase, we recommend paying the fees before 1 April 2026 so as to save on maintenance costs.

The new fee tables can be accessed here.

If you have any questions regarding this, please contact one of our patent or trade mark attorneys.