How to apply for a patent, what is the process, and the trademark?

According to the Patent Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), the examination and approval procedure of an application for a patent for invention includes five stages: acceptance, preliminary examination, publication, substantive examination and authorization. The application for a patent for utility model or design does not carry out early publication and substantive examination in the examination and approval, but only has three stages: acceptance, preliminary examination and authorization.

Process of trademark application: 1. Ask about the trademark first. If there is no identical or similar trademark in advance, you can make application documents and submit the application; 2. About 1 month after the application is submitted, the Trademark Office will send you an application acceptance notice within ten working days (this period is called the formal examination stage). 3. After the formal review is completed, it will take about 1 year to enter the substantive review stage. 4. Those who pass the substantive examination shall enter the announcement procedure (this period is 3 months, also called the objection period); 5. When the announcement expires, no one raises any objection. You can get the registration certificate. The time for successful registration above is generally around12-1August.