Simply from these aspects: 1. It usually takes 20 days to one month to provide a disclosure letter and entrust an agency to write the application documents (if there is no agency, this step can be omitted).
2. Submit the application documents, get the notification of acceptance from the Patent Office, determine the application date, and submit an early public statement and request substantive examination on the day of submitting the documents, which can speed up the examination process.
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.
It takes about 6-8 months for the patent office to publish the invention application documents.
5. The time for the Patent Office to substantially examine the invention patent documents is about one and a half to two years, during which the examiner communicates with the applicant on the substantive content of the invention, namely novelty, creativity and practicality (entrusting the agency to communicate with the agency to determine the appropriate protection scope of the invention), and this communication may be repeated many times until it is revised to the satisfaction of the examiner.
6, the patent office issued a notice of authorization
7. The applicant shall go through the formalities for obtaining a patent certificate.
8. It takes about 2-3 months to get the patent certificate.
The conditions for granting patent right include two aspects: formal conditions and substantive conditions.
The so-called formal conditions refer to the necessary document formats and procedures that the patent office should perform when conducting preliminary examination, substantive examination and granting patent rights. In other words, a patent application should be filed in written form, and the application documents with certain format and content requirements should be submitted.
Substantive conditions can determine whether an invention-creation applying for patent protection can be patented, which is the key to determine whether a patent application can be granted a patent right. An invention or utility model granted a patent right shall be novel, creative and practical. The prerequisite for granting a design is that it is not the same as or similar to the design that has been published in publications at home and abroad before the application date or has been publicly used in China.
Novelty means that the invention or utility model for which a patent is applied does not belong to the existing technology, and the appearance design for which a patent is applied is not the same as or similar to the existing design.