What is the process of drug intellectual property application?

Legal analysis: 1. Search for patents of the same type, you can search independently or entrust an agency to conduct a more comprehensive search. 2. Prepare the application documents and submit them to the application step. 3. get the admission notice. 4. Preliminary review. Before the preliminary examination, the application for a patent for invention must be examined in confidentiality, and if confidentiality is required, it shall be handled in accordance with the confidentiality procedures. 5. Announcement stage. 6. Substantive review. To conduct a comprehensive review of whether the patent application is novel, creative, practical and other substantive conditions stipulated in the patent law. 7. Authorization stage.

Legal basis: Article 22 of the Patent Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), the invention and utility model for which a patent is applied shall be novel, creative and practical. Novelty means that the invention or utility model does not belong to the prior art; Before the filing date, no unit or individual filed an application for the same invention or utility model with the administrative department for patent in the State Council, and it was recorded in the patent application documents published or announced after the filing date. Creativity means that compared with the prior art, the invention has outstanding substantive features and remarkable progress, and the utility model has substantive features and progress. Practicality means that the invention or utility model can be manufactured or used and can produce positive effects.