1. Application: When filing an application for customs protection with the General Administration of Customs, the obligee shall obtain the filing application from the Customs in advance. The obligee or his agent shall fill in the application form as required and report to the General Administration of Customs with relevant documents;
When filing an application, the obligee shall file an application according to the principle of one right, that is, each application can only file one application for intellectual property rights on one certificate of rights. The application form shall be filled in Chinese, and the application documents submitted for examination shall be true and valid;
2. Review: After receiving all the application documents, the General Administration of Customs will review the intellectual property rights applied for filing, including whether the intellectual property rights are valid, whether they are protected by China laws and regulations, whether they are within the scope of customs protection, whether the application form meets the requirements and whether the attached documents are complete;
3. The General Administration of Customs thinks that the obligee should be notified within 30 days from the date of receiving all the application documents. Where the filing is granted, a certificate of customs protection for the filing of intellectual property rights shall be issued to the obligee.
The scope of protection of intellectual property rights is as follows:
1, copyright and neighboring rights;
2. Trademark right;
3. The right to geographical indications;
4. Industrial product design right;
5. Patent right;
6, integrated circuit layout design right;
7. Exclusive right to disclose information.
After the patent right of invention and utility model in Article 11 of the Patent Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) has been granted, unless otherwise provided in this Law, no unit or individual may exploit the patent without the permission of the patentee, that is, it may not manufacture, use, promise to sell, sell or import its patented products for production and business purposes, or use its patented methods and use, promise to sell, sell or import products directly obtained according to the patented methods.
After the design patent is granted, no unit or individual may exploit its patent without the permission of the patentee, that is, it may not manufacture, promise to sell, sell or import its patented product for production and business purposes.