At the same time, our country has also lost the conditions for applying for patents. The reasons for the loss of confidentiality or leakage of this technology are the lack of confidentiality measures or lax confidentiality measures, leakage of secrets by technical personnel, or transfer of technology to foreign companies, etc., which may lead to the loss or leakage of this technology.
Conditions for applying for patents:
1. Those applying for patents for inventions and utility models must have novelty, creativity and practicality.
2. Applicants for design patents must be novel and not belong to existing designs.
3. It cannot conflict with other people’s prior patent rights, cannot be illegal, violate social ethics or impede public interests.
4. Novelty means that the invention or utility model does not belong to the existing technology, and no unit or individual has applied for the same invention or utility model to the patent administration department of the State Council before the application date. .
5. Creativity means that compared with the existing technology before the filing date, the invention has outstanding substantive features and significant progress. The utility model has substantive features and progress.
6. Practicality means that the invention or utility model can be manufactured or used and can produce positive effects.
The process of applying for a patent is:
1. When citizens apply for invention or utility model patents, they need to submit application documents such as design specifications, patent application requests, abstracts and claims.
2. When a citizen applies for a design patent, he or she needs to submit pictures of the modified design, a request for a patent, and documentation describing the design. I can submit an application to the Patent Office myself, or I can entrust an intellectual property agency to submit a patent application.
3. The Patent Office will accept and examine applications within a certain period of time, and relevant staff will examine invention patents that require substantive examination.
4. After passing the review, the Patent Office will issue an authorization notice and the applicant will go through the registration procedures within two months. After completing the relevant procedures, the Patent Office will issue a patent certificate.