2025 practice fees
The Legal Services Board approved IPReg's application of its proposed 2024 Practice Fee Regulations (setting out the fee levels for the 2025 practice year) on 4 November 2024. The approval means that practising fees for 2025 will increase by 3% across all fee paying categories, other than for attorneys who are not in active practice (those fees have not increased since 2023). In addition, it agreed that IPReg should remove the fee paying category "Sole Trader employing other attorneys or professionals". Going forward, any sole trader seeking to employ another attorney or professional person (such as a solicitor or European Patent Attorney) may only do so through a registered (or licensed) body.
You can see our application, submitted on 4 October, here. The Legal Services Board asked a number of questions to which IPReg responded. These were discussed in the 7 November 2024 meeting of the IPReg Board and a link to those minutes will be published here once agreed.
Further information on the process for the approval of practice fees can be found here. Practice fees for previous years are available on request.
Fees are for the year from 1 January. We do not require any additional payment (and nor do we give refunds) if your practice fee type changes during the year or if you resign from the register.
Hardship
The fee waiver application process for registered attorneys that was introduced in 2020 as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic remains in the 2024 Regulations and includes applications on the basis of general hardship. To apply to IPReg to have your practising fees waived on the basis of hardship, please read paragraphs 4-7 of the 2024 Regulations and make an application via the Practice Fee Waiver Application tab of your Annual Return menu in your IPReg account. You must provide evidence of hardship.
Fees 2025
The fees for an individual/body to be entered on or to remain on a single register (ie Patent or Trade Mark) or both registers (ie Patent and Trade Mark) can be found below:
| Practice Fee Types | Single Registrant Fee | Dual Registrant Fee |
| Attorney solely undertaking corporate work | £ 209.00 | £ 334.00 |
| Attorney in private practice | £ 253.00 | £ 416.00 |
| Attorney not in active practice | £ 171.00 | £ 273.00 |
| Sole trader not employing other attorneys or other professionals | £ 416.00 | £ 594.00 |
| Registered Body Fees | For Entry on or to remain on a single register or both registers |
| i) Registered body through which only a single attorney and no other attorneys or other professionals* provide services | £163.00 |
| ii) Any other registered body | £416.00 + £83.00 for each attorney practising via the body + £334.00 for each other professional practising via the body |
* an ‘other professional’ for the purpose of the Practice Fees Rules means a manager or employee based in the UK who is: (i) not a registered attorney but holds the qualifications necessary for registration; (ii) a qualified European patent and/or trade mark attorney; (iii) a barrister of England and Wales; or (iv) a solicitor of England and Wales. This does not include paralegals, trainees, support or administrative staff unless they hold the qualifications necessary for registration.