What are the precautions for requesting patent priority examination?
The substantive examination of the invention patent means that the patent office should not only examine the formal requirements of the application, but also examine whether the invention in the application meets the substantive requirements of novelty, creativity and practicality. Except in special circumstances, applications entering the actual trial procedure shall be examined in the order of receipt. The following Bajie Intellectual Property introduces you to the matters needing attention in requesting patent priority examination. Patent priority review 1. An application for a patent for invention requiring priority examination shall be an electronic application. Where an application for a patent for invention that has not yet entered the substantive examination procedure requires priority examination, the applicant shall initiate the substantive examination procedure. 2. When the applicant goes through the formalities of priority review, it shall submit the corresponding materials. The materials required for the applicant to apply for the priority examination procedure are as follows: (1) The request for priority examination of the application for a patent for invention shall be examined and signed by the intellectual property offices of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government; (2) a search report in a prescribed format issued by a unit with patent search conditions, or a search report and examination results issued by a patent examination institution in other countries or regions and its Chinese translation.