What are the circumstances in which patent applications are not accepted?
Patent application documents in any of the following circumstances shall not be accepted by the patent administrative department of the State Council: non-Chinese; Does not meet the requirements of the detailed rules for the implementation of the patent law; The applicant's name or address is missing from the application. Legal basis: Article 39 of the Detailed Rules for the Implementation of the Patent Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), the patent administrative department of the State Council will not accept the patent application documents under any of the following circumstances, and notify the applicant: (1) The application for a patent for invention or utility model lacks the request, specification or claim, or the application for a patent for design lacks the request, picture or photograph and a brief explanation; (2) Do not use Chinese; (three) does not meet the requirements of the first paragraph of Article 121st of these rules; (four) the name or address of the applicant is missing in the request; (5) It is obviously not in conformity with the provisions of Article 18 or Paragraph 1 of Article 19 of the Patent Law; (6) The category of the patent application is unclear or difficult to determine.