According to the Patent Law, the examination and approval procedure of an application for a patent for invention includes five stages: acceptance, preliminary examination, publication, substantive examination and authorization.
The authorization process of invention patent is relatively long, generally from the submission of application, one or two years to at least half a year, before authorization can be obtained, so as to obtain the invention patent certificate.
The term of the invention patent right is twenty years, counting from the date of application. The first page of the utility model patent certificate records the following contents: the name of the utility model, the name of the inventor, the patent number, the date of patent application, the name of the patentee (that is, the name of the applicant), the date of authorization announcement, the signature of the then director China National Intellectual Property Administration and the seal of China National Intellectual Property Administration. The patent certificate also includes the patent authorization text.
According to the Patent Law, there are only three stages in the examination and approval of utility model applications: acceptance, preliminary examination and authorization.
The term of patent right for utility model is ten years, counting from the date of application. The first page of the design patent certificate records the following contents: the name of the design, the name of the designer, the patent number, the date of patent application, the name of the patentee (that is, the name of the applicant), the date of authorization announcement, the signature of the then director China National Intellectual Property Administration and the seal of China National Intellectual Property Administration. The patent certificate also includes the patent authorization text.
According to the Patent Law, there are only three stages in the examination and approval of an application for a patent for design: acceptance, preliminary examination and authorization.
The term of patent right for design is ten years, counting from the date of application.