WORK FLOW SUPPORT SYSTEM, ITS METHOD, WORK FLOW SUPPORT PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM WITH THE PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To previously accurately grasp costs required for the examination claims of much patent application. SOLUTION: Fees (a basic fee per examination claim, a reference amount per claim, etc.), to be paid to the Patent Office and fees (a reference fee amount per claim to be increased by correction, etc.), to be paid to an agent are acquired from a prescribed table and costs required for examination claims are automatically calculated in accordance with the situation of each patent whether the patent is to be processed by an enterprise itself or is to be left to a patent office. The costs of individual patents optionally selected by an operator are automatically calculated and totalized to automatically calculate the total costs required for the examination claims of the patents.