Legal analysis: individuals apply for patents like this: 1. It usually takes 20 days to 1 month to provide a disclosure letter and entrust an agency to write application documents; 2. Submit application documents; 3. The Patent Office will formally review the patent application documents for about 2-3 months, and enter the public preparation stage after the first trial is passed; 4. It takes about 6-8 months for the Patent Office to publish the invention application documents; 5. The Patent Office conducts substantive examination of the invention patent documents; 6. Letter of authorization issued by the Patent Office; 7. The applicant shall go through the formalities for obtaining the patent certificate; 8. It takes about 2-3 months to get the patent certificate. To apply for a patent for invention or utility model, a written request, a specification, an abstract thereof, a patent claim and other documents shall be submitted.
Legal basis: Article 26 of the Patent Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), when applying for a patent for invention or utility model, a request, specification, abstract, patent right and other documents shall be submitted. The request shall specify the name of the invention or utility model, the name of the inventor, the name and address of the applicant and other matters.