1) Prepare patent application documents (including claims, specifications, drawings of specifications, abstracts and drawings of abstracts). The specific file format can be downloaded from official website of the Patent Office.
2) Fill in the patent application request (including invention name, applicant, inventor and related information, etc.). ). The specific file format can be downloaded from official website of the Patent Office.
3) Pay the patent application fee.
4) After submitting these to the Patent Office, you can get the application date and application number, which are the only numbers to be examined by the Patent Office in the future. The formal admission notice will be issued within two weeks after the application date.
5) When the Patent Office examines and issues a notice of examination opinions or a notice of correction, the applicant needs to reply within the prescribed time limit. After the examination is finally qualified, the patent office issues a notice of authorization, indicating that it agrees to authorize.
6) The announcement of patent authorization shall take effect after the applicant handles the authorization registration.
There are three kinds of patents in China: invention, utility model and design.
Every type of agricultural machinery can be considered, and the difference is usually utility model and invention.
It should be noted that the patent application does not need actual products or samples, but only needs to describe in detail the differences with similar products and the good results that can be achieved through words.