Specific steps:
1. Consultation: Determine whether the invention belongs to patentable content. For this consultation, it is recommended to consult several companies, compare them and determine the correct conclusion. Because at present, many information receptionists take commission, sometimes there will be inappropriate reply to the consultation for the business volume.
2. Sign an agency agreement. The purpose of signing the agency agreement at this time is to clarify the rights and obligations between the applicant and the patent agency, mainly to restrain the patent agent from keeping the applicant's invention confidential.
3. Technical disclosure. The applicant provides the patent agent with background information about the invention or creation or entrusts the retrieval of relevant contents.
4. Determine the application scheme. On the basis of understanding the invention and creation, the agent will make a preliminary judgment on the prospect of the patent application and advise the applicant to withdraw the application with little possibility of patent authorization. At this time, the agency will charge a small amount of consulting fees, and most of the application agency fees will be returned to the applicant.
5. Prepare application documents.
6. Examination: The Chinese Patent Office examines the patent application documents, and the patent agent makes patent corrections, replies and changes during the examination. When necessary, the applicant shall cooperate with the patent agent to complete the above work.