Subsidies for patent attorney services
Save up to 75% on patent searches, application processing, and administrative fees
Aided activities include:
- drafting of patent, trademark, utility or industrial design application
- searches on patentability, freedom-to-operate etc.
- providing professional advice, consultations and other assistance
- representation before authorities in the Czech Republic and abroad, responses to objections and translations
- administrative fees paid to the respective authorities, if invoiced by the representative
The subsidy may be applied to services billed by patent attorneys that occurred after January 1, 2021. The services must be associated with a specific application or applications and are eligible until the publication of the patent application or registration of other rights.
Additional Information
Minimum grant amount
The provided support ranges from CZK 50,000 to CZK 500,000 per grant project.
Each applicant can submit multiple applications, but individual projects should not be related to each other.
The grant is reimbursed only retrospectively after the successful completion of the project. In the case of a patent, this is the publication of the patent application, and for other rights, it is their registration. If your application includes multiple applications, the project is considered completed after the publication/registration of the last one.
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The maximum support must not exceed EUR 20,700 per 1 subsidy application.
Innovation Vouchers – Industrial Property Rights Protection – Call I falls under the de minimis regime. It is therefore also limited to a threshold of EUR 200,000 that a given enterprise can receive over the last 3 accounting periods.
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Grant provider
The grant is provided by the Ministry of Industry and Trade under the subsidy: Innovation Vouchers – Industrial Property Rights Protection – Call I.
This call is part of the Operational Programme for Enterprise and Innovations for Competitiveness (OP TAK) 2021-2027.
Oficial information about the subsidy
End of application collection
You can submit your applications until the publication date of your patent application or the registration of other rights, but no later than December 31, 2025.
Who can apply for a subsidy?
Support within this call can be requested by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), research and knowledge organizations, and individuals conducting business in the Czech Republic.
An SME has fewer than 250 employees, turnover ≤ 50 million EUR or an annual balance sheet total ≤ 43 million EUR.
The support does not apply to projects from Prague.
When to apply for a grant?
You can only submit your application after you have already filed a patent application or other right. If you don’t have one yet but are planning, we’ll guide you, and together we’ll coordinate the ideal process.
However, you must submit the subsidy application before your patent application is published (usually within 18 months) and by December 31, 2025.
For example
In January 2024, you submitted a Czech patent application, followed by an international PCT application in January 2025. You’re looking to leverage a grant for these applications.
At that moment, you can include (e.g.):
- EUR 2,000 – drafting of the CZ national application
- EUR 1,250 – two responses to the CZ Industrial Property Office (IPO) notices
- EUR 4,000 – drafting of the PCT application
You can also include expenses that haven’t occurred yet but are likely to happen before the publication of the applications. Publication typically occurs 18 months from the filing of the first application, which, in our case, would be in December 2025.
Until July 2025, potential expenses could include:
- EUR 2,000 – request for an international search
- EUR 400-1,250 – responses to office actions
- EUR 800-1,250 – překlad PCT přihlášky
- additional costs for extending protection to other countries
You can include all of these expenses in the grant and receive up to 75% of the costs back.
However, the total amount must be estimated in advance and set as the project’s financial ceiling.
This limit must not exceed EUR 20,700 and must remain within your de minimis allowance.
The allocated amount may remain partially unused, but it cannot be exceeded.
You will only be reimbursed for expenses that were actually incurred.
Grant conditions:
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The project must be physically implemented in the Czech Republic, outside the Prague region.
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The grant is provided under the de minimis regime (the applicant’s total support over the last three financial years must not exceed EUR 200,000).
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The applicant must have published financial statements for the last two financial periods.
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The applicant must have a registered beneficial owner in the Register of Beneficial Owners.
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The business activity listed in the Commercial Register (CZ-NACE) must correspond to the content of the project.
We will focus on the grant conditions, the course of the grant procedure, and our recommendations on whether — and when — to submit the application.
The grant application usually needs to be aligned with your patent and trademark filing strategy.
In some cases, we need to act quickly due to upcoming filings; in others, we have more flexibility and time to submit the grant application.
For submitting the grant application and throughout the evaluation process, it is necessary to provide documents proving that all grant conditions are met.
These include, for example, a declaration of enterprise size, a de minimis declaration, or the electronic conversion of a power of attorney.
At this stage, we will need the most cooperation from you, as some information must be supplied from your accounting records and may not be publicly available.
The grant applicant is assessed within the definition of a single undertaking, meaning that compliance with the conditions is evaluated collectively for the applicant and all entities in which it holds at least a 25% share.
In some cases, the definition also includes undertakings of close family members, particularly spouses, siblings, parents, and children.
We will compile the documents you provide, finalize the industrial property applications, and prepare and submit the grant application.
The following approximately two months are dedicated to the formal and substantive review of the grant conditions, as well as the verification of the applicant.
We will keep you informed about the status of your application throughout the process.
Before the Grant Award Decision is issued, it is necessary to provide the financial statements for the two previous closed accounting periods—both for the applicant and for any entities in which the applicant holds at least a 25% share.
In some cases, it is also necessary to include the financial statements of close family members (parents, spouses, siblings, children).
Once the Grant Award Decision is issued, the project’s sustainability period begins, which is typically three years for patent-related projects.
From the moment the decision is issued, the project publicity obligations also take effect.
If you have received the Grant Award Decision and your project has been completed (for example, by publishing all patent applications included in the grant), we can begin preparing the Request for Payment.
During the grant procedure, it is necessary to communicate with the project manager and submit the required monitoring reports.
For projects involving patent applications, the sustainability period typically lasts three years.
One monitoring report must be submitted for each year of this period.
We take care of grant projects from start to finish — we handle the full administration, including the application and all sustainability reports.
However, we do not have access to your internal accounting or the ongoing development of your company, so in some cases we will need your cooperation or confirmation of further steps, which we will prepare for you in advance.
The Request for Payment can be submitted only after the project has been completed
(e.g., once the patent applications have been published or the other IP rights have been registered).
Only at this stage do we present the specific expenses to be reimbursed under the grant.
These include individual invoices, payment confirmations, or asset records, as applicable.
The maximum amount of eligible expenses depends on the financial ceiling set in the Grant Application and on the limits of the call — up to EUR 20,700.
The grant is typically reimbursed approximately 2–3 months after the Request for Payment has been submitted.
During the three-year sustainability period, it is necessary to submit Implementation Reports — monitoring reports that describe the progress of the patent and other IP applications included in the grant.
These reports typically include, for example, financial statements and evidence of mandatory project publicity (such as a screenshot of a social media post, a link to the website, or photographs).
What we need from you when submitting the application:
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Confirmation of filing issued by the relevant authority
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Contract with a patent attorney
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Bank account confirmation
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Power of Attorney — either electronically signed or an electronically converted, officially certified PoA (issued, for example, at CzechPOINT)
At a later stage, we will also need to provide:
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Declaration of enterprise size
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Financial statements for the last two closed accounting periods
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Declaration on de minimis aid
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We take care of most of the administrative work associated with the grant application.
However, especially at the beginning, we will need your cooperation or confirmation of certain steps, which we will prepare for you in advance.
We do not have access to all accounting information required for the application, as some of it may not be publicly available.
We’ll help you increase your chances of securing funding
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