Fees
A standard filing is not an unknowable event, and neither is much of recurring prosecution. For defined work you should know what it costs before you commit to it.
Fee amounts are not published on this page. The schedule is issued on request so it stays current, and every figure must be confirmed by the firm before it is quoted.
For defined filing work, the instruction is checked against the requirements and priced before anything is committed. Nothing proceeds until you have said yes to the number.
Official fees are set by the Office and pass through unchanged. Professional fees are ours. Combining them into a single figure makes it impossible for you to see which part is negotiable, which part scales with claims or classes, and which part you would pay to anybody. Many clients also need them split for internal recharging, so the split is the default rather than an option.
A defined fee covers the scope described when it is quoted. Work that falls outside that scope — an unexpected objection, an additional class, a hearing, an extension, a third round of correspondence — is quoted separately before it is undertaken, not added afterwards.
For a filing programme or a portfolio, a standing fee schedule can be agreed once and applied to every instruction, alongside your playbook. The point of the schedule is that the next instruction does not need a quotation at all: the fee, the approval threshold and the billing entity are already known.
Your playbook can require approval before costs above an agreed threshold are incurred, name who may give that approval, and require a second approval above a higher figure. Where an approval has not arrived, the work waits and you are told — it is not incurred and explained later.
Questions
So that what you receive is current. Official fees change, and a published table goes stale quietly. The schedule is issued on request and dated.
It is the fee for the scope quoted. Work outside that scope is quoted separately before it is undertaken, so there is no surprise on the invoice.
Yes. A standing schedule can be agreed for recurring work and applied automatically to every instruction under it.
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