In addition to Nan Yong, Liang Jianxing, former party secretary and director of Fenghua Health Bureau of Zhejiang Province, obtained the national patent certification for his invention with 1 1 during his six-year imprisonment. Its patents include eye massager, disposable nose cover to prevent PM2.5 and pill counter. 20 1 1, Liang Jianxing received a one-year and three-month sentence reduction for his good behavior in prison.
In addition, Lou Weigang, former deputy director of the Transportation Bureau of a city in Sichuan Province, has been serving his sentence in prison since 2006. During his prison term, he cooperated with his cellmates to invent a wall-mounted cigarette lighter and an embedded depth indicator for underwater concrete conduit, and successfully applied for a patent. Chen Jianping, former director of Beijing Bureau of Land, Resources and Geothermal, obtained patent certification for his invention in the energy field during his prison term.
According to the previous survey of Beiqing Daily, a number of intellectual property agencies clearly stated on their websites that they would provide services for prisoners to apply for invention patents, including tailor-made inventions for prisoners. These institutions provide targeted professional services for different prisons and different prisoners.
In terms of price and time, a common utility model patent costs 6800 yuan, and it only takes half a year to one year from the beginning of formulating the invention scheme to successfully applying for a patent. Invention patents are more difficult, with costs ranging from 50,000 to 60,000, and it takes one to one and a half years.
In addition to directly acting as an agent for patent application services for invention-creation, some institutions also indicated that they can design inventions as required if they need to provide invention results. The invention cost at least 10,000 yuan, and the application time is about two years.