Patent literature is a general term for published or unpublished documents (or their abstracts), which contain relevant information about the research, design, development and test results of discoveries, inventions, utility models and industrial designs, as well as information about protecting the rights of inventors, patentees and holders of industrial designs and utility model registration certificates. Generally speaking, patent documents mainly refer to the official publications of patent offices in various countries.
At present, the patent specifications published in various countries tend to be unified in format and content. All kinds of patent specifications basically include: patent document description, specifications, claims, abstracts and drawings, and some patent specifications published in some countries are accompanied by search reports.
The description item of patent document is the feature of patent information published on the title page of patent specification.
A specification is a part of a document, which clearly and completely describes the technical content of an invention.
Patent claim is a document to determine the technical characteristics of the invention and creation for which the applicant requests patent protection, and it is also the legal basis for judging whether others infringe.
The attached drawings are documents used to supplement the main body of the specification.
A brief introduction to the key contents or main technical features of the invention described in the specification.
A retrieval report is a document in which the examiner reports the retrieval results after retrieving the relevant technical level of the invention described in the patent application document.