Where color protection is required, color pictures or photographs shall also be submitted in duplicate. All submitted pictures are pictures, and all submitted photos are photos. Pictures or photos shall not be mixed.
If pictures or photo descriptions are needed, a brief description of the design shall be submitted. Where a patent agency is entrusted, a power of attorney shall be submitted. To apply for fee reduction, an application for fee reduction and corresponding supporting documents shall be submitted.
2. In the examination stage, China implements the preliminary examination system for the application for patent for design. During the preliminary examination, the examiner will issue a notice of correction to the formal problems in the application documents. The applicant makes corrections to the notice.
At the same time, the examiner will examine whether it belongs to the design patent protection customer. If there are customers who are not protected by the design patent, the examiner will issue a notice of examination opinions, and the applicant will inform the examination opinions.
Reply or modify the application documents.
3. Authorization stage:
(1) Authorization: After the first trial is passed, the examiner will issue a notice of granting the patent right. After receiving the patent authorization notice, the applicant needs to go through the following registration procedures: pay the patent registration fee within the prescribed time limit,
Annual authorization fee, announcement printing fee and stamp duty of patent certificate.
(2) Issuance of certificates: The applicant can obtain a patent certificate after going through the registration formalities. This period of time is about 2-3 months.
[Legal basis]
Articles 2 to 17 of the Patent Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) apply for a patent for design, and shall submit a request, a picture or photograph of the design, a brief description of the design and other documents.
The relevant pictures or photographs submitted by the applicant shall clearly indicate the design of the product for which patent protection is required.