Sri Lanka Trademark Registration Fee Calculator

The calculator applies the Schedule of Fees published by the National Intellectual Property Office of Sri Lanka under the Intellectual Property Act No. 36 of 2003. Trademark registration is a multi-stage process and the NIPO charges a separate fee for each stage, per Nice class. Foreign / non-resident applicants pay from a separately gazetted higher-fee column — not a multiplier applied to local fees — per the proposal's data-integrity rule.

For a new registration, three per-class line items are always due:

1. Form 2 — Application for registration. Rs 1,000 local / Rs 5,000 foreign, per class. Lodged with a specimen of the mark and the goods / services description for each Nice class.
2. Form 3 — Publication in the Government Gazette. Rs 1,500 local / Rs 7,500 foreign, per class. Triggered when the examiner accepts the mark; the three-month opposition window runs from the gazette date.
3. Form 4 — Issue of registration certificate. Rs 1,000 local / Rs 5,000 foreign, per class. Paid once the opposition window closes without challenge (or after a successful opposition response).

The total is calculated as:

Total = (application + publication + registration) × classes
+ priority surcharge × claims
+ certified copy (if requested)
+ expedited examination (if requested)

Renewals, recordal of assignment, and change-of-name filings use a single per-class (or per-mark) fee, not the three-part filing flow. Renewal under IP Act s.116 is Rs 2,000 local / Rs 10,000 foreign per class, payable every 10 years to keep the mark on the register indefinitely.

Why each class is a separate filing

Section 103 of the Intellectual Property Act treats every Nice class as a distinct application: a single mark filed in three classes is legally three filings. This is why the per-class line items multiply rather than aggregate to a tiered discount — the examination, publication, and certificate issuance happen independently for each class. If you later want to expand into a new class, you file a fresh Form 2 for that class only; the existing classes are not disturbed. The flip side: dropping a class at renewal time saves the entire per-class renewal fee, so it pays to audit your portfolio before renewal and shed classes you no longer trade in.

Foreign tier and local-agent requirement

The Intellectual Property Act draws a hard line between resident and non-resident applicants. Section 156 requires every non-resident to appoint a Sri Lankan agent — typically a trademark attorney or patent agent registered with NIPO — and to lodge a Form 7 power of attorney with the application. NIPO will reject filings made directly from overseas. On top of the agent's professional fee (not gazetted; ask for a written quote), foreign applicants pay from the separate non-resident column of the Schedule of Fees, which runs roughly five times the local-tier figures. The calculator models the foreign tier as a distinct published column, not a multiplier, so it stays accurate if NIPO later revises one tier without the other.

Paris Convention priority claims

If you have a corresponding application in another Paris Convention country filed within the last six months, you can claim that earlier date as your effective filing date in Sri Lanka under Section 121. NIPO charges a surcharge per claim — one claim per class is the maximum the Act allows — and you lodge Form 5 with certified copies of the priority document. The calculator caps the priority-claim count at the number of classes you have selected, since claiming priority on a class you have not filed in is procedurally meaningless.

What the calculator does not include

Government fees only. Attorney and trademark-agent professional fees vary by firm and by complexity, so they are not part of the deterministic calculation; budget Rs 15,000–60,000 per class as a working order of magnitude for a straightforward new filing. The calculator also excludes opposition-response fees (only triggered if a third party challenges your application during the gazette-publication window), cancellation-action fees, infringement court costs, and customs-recordal fees with Sri Lanka Customs. The company registration fee calculator covers DRC fees if you are also incorporating the brand-owning entity; the stamp duty calculator covers the Stamp Duty (Special Provisions) Act charges that may arise if you later assign the trademark to a third party.

Verification and rounding

The calculator runs two independent derivations of the total — a line-item walk and a flattened algebraic formula — and shows the "verified" badge only when both produce the same integer rupee figure. NIPO publishes all fees as integer LKR amounts and the calculator never introduces fractional rupees. If you select zero classes the calculator returns zero with a clear validation error, rather than a silent NaN, and class numbers outside the 1–45 range are rejected with a warning that lists the offending value.

Three scenarios mapped to the most common Sri Lankan filing patterns, plus an edge case. Plug each one into the calculator above — the itemised breakdown should match the lines below to the rupee.

• National Intellectual Property Office of Sri Lanka — official site & Schedule of Fees
• Intellectual Property Act No. 36 of 2003 — full statute (ss.103, 106, 116, 121, 156)
• NIPO Trademark Forms & Fee Notice (gazette-published amendment)
• WIPO Nice Classification (12th edition) — list of the 45 classes

NIPO fees were last cross-checked against the official Schedule of Fees on 2026-05-17. The schedule is gazetted under the Intellectual Property Act No. 36 of 2003 and may be amended without notice — always confirm the current per-class fee at nipo.gov.lk before filing.