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This page gives a general idea about expenses that relate to a particular process, and provides estimation of an avarage process in accordance with our experience

Registration of a company with foreign participation

Estimated all together, the average procedure may cost between $1900 and $3700 and takes 9 or more weeks (the company is considered to be existing upon issuance of temporary registration certificate in about 2-4 weeks).

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Opening of a representative office or a brunch of a foreign company

Estimated all together (service charges, compulsory fees, notarial expenses and disbursements), the average procedure may cost between $5000 and $7500 and takes 9 or more weeks (permission for accreditation takes between 2 and 8 weeks depending on schedules of accreditation authorities).

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Trademark registration

In case the applicant is a Russian company (including the ones with foreign investments) estimation of a basic process will be as follows:

	Service price (in USD)excl.VAT	Estimation of state fees and disbursements (RUR)
Preparation and filing of application to the Patent authority, receipt of a priority letter (basic procedure) Term: within 3 months from the date of application
a) for 1-5 classes of the International Classified Directory of Goods and Services (ICDGS)	$200	RUR 250,47
b) for each additional class of the ICDGS, exceeding five	$10	RUR 41,75
Assistance with express processing of application and prompt issue of a priority letter Term: within 2 weeks	$100	RUR 500
Application for prompt expertise	$100	RUR 1500
Paper follow-up and supervision of the prompt registration process
- verbal or graphic trademark
a) in one class of the ICDGS	$100	RUR 2500
b) for each class of the ICDGS, exceeding one	$20	RUR 500
- combined trademark
a) in one class of the ICDGS	$100	RUR 5000
b) for each class of the ICDGS, exceeding one	$20	RUR 1000
Supervision of receipt of a trademark registration certificate
within 6 months upon payment of duty	$100	RUR 208,73
within 12 working days upon payment of duty	$200	RUR 208,73
Preliminary search for similar trademarks and registered identifications in each class of the International Classified Directory of Goods and Services
- verbal identification
within 1 month	$250	RUR 500 +100/class
within 2 weeks	$270	RUR 1000 +200/class
within 7 days	$300	RUR 1500 +300/class
- graphic identification
within 1 month	$270
within 10 working days	$350
- combined identification
within 1 month	$350
within 10 working days	$450
Recommendations for modification of the trademark before filing of application, if similar trademarks are found	$100

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Consulting programs

Our basic consulting fees are $75 hourly and $250 for one day of work of each specialist.
For our clients' convenience we have also developed a few consulting programs.

Long-term consulting agreement:
       in legal questions:
       from $500 monthly +20% discount on other services;
       on taxation and bookkeeping:
       from $500 monthly +20% discount on other services.

Weekly legal digest + on-call consulting:
$500 quarterly +10% discount on other services.

Weekly legal digest + on-call consulting + 7 hours in-office monthly consulting:
$1000 quarterly + 15% discount on other services.

Consulting in organising of business (60 hours):
$3000 + 20% discount on other services.

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Business visas

Assistance with due registration of a business invitation in the Russian Ministry for Foreign Affairs costs our clients from $60 for a prompt invitation for a single 1-month visit to $110 for a one-year multientry invitation.

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