Can a patent application be entrusted to an agency?

Legal Analysis: Units or individuals in Chinese mainland can entrust a legally established patent agency to handle the patent application procedures, or they can go through the relevant procedures themselves.

Legal basis: People's Republic of China (PRC) Patent Law.

Article 4 Where an invention-creation applying for a patent involves national security or vital interests and needs to be kept confidential, it shall be handled in accordance with the relevant provisions of the state.

Article 5 No patent right shall be granted for inventions and creations that violate laws, social ethics or harm public interests. No patent right shall be granted to inventions and creations obtained or utilized in violation of laws and administrative regulations and completed by relying on genetic resources.