Is the patent status the legal status of the patent?

The legal status of patent refers to the legal status when the patent application is entered into the patent literature database. Once a patent is applied, it cannot be obtained, and it must go through a series of examination procedures. In the process of examination, the applicant may voluntarily give up the patent application or be rejected by the patent office, and his legal status has changed.

Legal status can be roughly divided into three types:

The first is unstable state, such as "disclosure" and "substantive examination" of an application for a patent for invention, that is, waiting for examination or examining the ongoing situation;

The second is a relatively stable state, that is, the "authorized" state after the audit. Some patents may still be "expired", and some may be "terminated" because they have not paid the annual fee on time;

The third is a stable state, such as "withdrawal" after publicity, "deemed withdrawal" during review, "rejection" and "abandonment" after authorization, and "revocation" or "invalidation"; This case ends here, and there will be no change.