How to apply for drug patent and drug patent application process?
1. Query before application
Patent technologies declared by China, Europe, the United States and Japan * Search the retrieval systems of major patent websites to determine the novelty of technologies.
2. Prepare application documents
(1) To apply for a patent for invention, the application documents shall include: the request for a patent for invention, the abstract, the appended drawings of the abstract (if applicable), the specification, the claims and the appended drawings of the specification (if applicable) in duplicate. For an application for a patent for invention involving amino acid or nucleotide sequence, the specification shall include a sequence list, which shall be submitted as a separate part of the specification, and the page number shall be written continuously with the specification, and the CD or floppy disk conforming to the provisions of China National Intellectual Property Administration shall be submitted.
(2) To apply for a patent for utility model, the application documents shall include: the request for a patent for utility model, the abstract, the appended drawings of the abstract (if applicable), the specification, the claims and the appended drawings of the specification in duplicate.
(3) To apply for a patent for design, the application documents shall include: a request for a patent for design, pictures or photographs (if color protection is required, color pictures or photographs shall be submitted) and a brief description of the design in duplicate. If you submit pictures, they are both pictures; If you submit pictures, they are both photos. Mixing pictures or photos is not allowed.
3. The department that accepts the patent application
When applying for a patent, the applicant can submit the application documents to the acceptance window of China National Intellectual Property Administration Patent Office or send them to the acceptance office of China National Intellectual Property Administration Patent Office (hereinafter referred to as the acceptance office of the Patent Office), or face the acceptance window of China National Intellectual Property Administration Patent Office (hereinafter referred to as the agency of the Patent Office) or send them to the agency of the Patent Office.
application for patent
The patent application shall submit the necessary application documents and pay the fees in accordance with the regulations. Patent applications must be handled in the form of written or electronic applications. Paper or electronic application documents cannot be replaced by oral explanations or samples or models.
5. Patent approval procedures
According to the provisions of the Patent Law, the examination and approval procedures of an application for a patent for invention include acceptance, preliminary examination, publication, actual examination and authorization, which are divided into five stages. The application for a patent for utility model or design was not published and examined in substance at the initial stage of examination and approval, and it can only be divided into three stages: acceptance, preliminary examination and authorization.
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