2. Don't use Chinese. For example, untranslated foreign language application documents cannot be accepted.
3. Acceptance conditions that do not meet the following requirements: the application documents are printed or printed in Chinese. All application documents have clear handwriting and lines, have not been altered, and their contents can be identified. The instructions, drawings and pictures of an application for a patent for invention or utility model are written in indelible handwriting and have not been modified.
4. The name or address of the applicant is missing in the application.
5. Foreign applicants are obviously not qualified to file patent applications because of their nationality or residence.
6. A foreigner, foreign enterprise or other foreign organization who has no habitual residence or business office in Chinese mainland is the first applicant and has not entrusted a patent agency.
7. Persons who have no habitual residence or business office in Chinese mainland. As the first applicant, the individual, enterprise or other organization in Hongkong, Macau or Taiwan Province has not entrusted a patent agency.
8. Send it directly to the Patent Office from abroad.
9. Send it directly to the Patent Office from Hongkong, Macau or Taiwan Province Province.
10. The category of the patent application (invention, utility model or design) is unclear or difficult to determine. For example, the applicant submitted a design request, specifications and drawings. Because the last two documents are not needed in the application for a patent for design, it is impossible to judge what kind of patent the applicant wants to apply for, so the Patent Office will not accept it.
1 1. Division applies for change of application category.