I firmly believe that everyone knows that patents, as another intangible property of the company, can generate a lot of profits for your company. And Renren China is constantly encouraging enterprises to develop, design and create patents. At the same time, patents can be applied not only in China,
Foreign countries can also obtain patents by applying for registration, but overseas patent laws are obviously different from domestic ones, and their characteristics are also different from domestic ones. Let's learn about the characteristics and contents of American patent applications.
The characteristics of American patent applications are as follows:
1. When applying for patent creation in the United States, even if the patented technology is made public within one year, the patent application can still be clearly filed, which is not easy to be assessed as damaging originality; If it is more than one year, it will be assessed as invalid and original;
2. If you apply for a temporary patent in the United States, you can get ownership. The date of patent application can be obtained by requiring the applicant to clearly put forward the patent specification in writing, and the temporary application will not be easily subject to substantive examination. If the patent applicant arrives within 12 months from the date of filing,
If the provisional patent application is not changed to a declared patent application, the provisional patent application will be regarded as the applicant leaving the application and revealing the secret. It should be noted that the application for a patent for plastic design does not apply to the temporary application;
3. When applying for a patent in the United States, you can apply continuously, mainly because the technical specifications for applying for a patent will not change, but the scale of patent maintenance and operation will be adjusted, and the application date of the scrapped case will be saved after adjustment;
4. When applying for a patent in the United States, part of the application can be made, mainly because the original application requires participation in new individual content, and the application date of the original patent application will not change, and the new participation is not distinguished, which is the application date of the new serial case.
U.S. patent applications include three different patent categories:
1. The contents included in the patent creation period: methods, equipment, products or material components, or new and effective improvements, can be applied for patents according to the standards and specifications set by this method.
2. Contents included in the design period: Anyone who creates a product design with novelty, originality and decorative art can obtain a patent according to the standards and elements of this method.
3. Contents included in the patent period of green plants: All the particularly new green plants that are created, discovered and propagated asexually, including the seedlings of green plants that have been changed, mutated, mixed, excavated and discovered during planting and cultivation, can be patented according to this method standard, but excluding green plants that are propagated by roots or green plants that are fermented under unformed conditions.
How to protect your own patent?
Patent application documents are equivalent to the inventor's invention credentials. The specifications and claims in patent application documents are the most serious and detailed professional legal documents. If you fill in a wrong word, it is likely that the inventor will regret it for life.
It is very difficult to write instructions and claims. It is difficult for people who only know literature writing or general basic knowledge without long-term training to write the final patent application documents. Another key issue is that,
People without independent technological innovation ability, even patent authority experts, are unlikely to write the final "explanation" and "claim".
Inventors should be extra careful when writing patent application documents. If you authorize a patent agency to apply for a patent, you must have good communication with the patent client, and you must let the patent client know your creativity and let the client calculate your potential creative invention content. How big are the errors in the instructions and claims in the patent application documents?
I searched for more than 10,000 patents, but rarely saw extreme "descriptions" and "claims". These defective patents are not only easy to be bypassed by others, but also can not be clearly stated when suing.
Some people complain about patents or patent regulations in China. Patent law, like other laws, has some problems in its examination. In any case, a patent that meets the standard can at least show that the invention is its own and can prevent others from obtaining the same patent.
Finally, people who know nothing about patent documents are not suitable to apply for patents rashly, even if they authorize patent agencies to apply for patents, they should be cautious. Before applying for a patent, the inventor must master the structure and characteristics of the patent application documents.
Only in this way can we cooperate well with patent customers and apply for high-quality patents. Naturally, inventors can write their own patent application documents, but they must go through long-term study and training. Otherwise, the probability of making mistakes is very high, even paying the price of creating artistic creativity for social development.
The above is my detailed introduction, I hope it will help you after reading it.