1, provide disclosure, entrust an agency to write the application documents, or write them yourself.
2. Submit the application documents, get the acceptance notice from the Patent Office within one week, set the application date, submit an early public statement and request substantive examination on the day of submission, 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 preliminary examination.
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 the patent certificate.
8. Get the patent certificate in about 2~3 months.
The whole process lasts for two and a half to three years, depending on the examiner's examination speed, the applicant's informative disclosure and the writing level of the application documents.