(1) When submitting application documents or documents for handling various formalities to the Patent Office, the form uniformly formulated by the Patent Office shall be used, and each document shall be in duplicate.
(2) A form can only be used for one patent application. For example, an invention patent request can only fill in one invention, and a statement of opinions can only state opinions on a patent application. It is not allowed to fill in several application statements or inventions in an opinion statement or an invention patent request.
(3) All documents submitted to the Patent Office shall be kept by the applicant, so as to ensure the consistency of document filling in the process of application examination and approval, and can be used as a reference when replying to the examination opinions.
(4) If the application documents are sent by post, a registered letter shall be used. If you can't send it by registered mail, you can use express mail instead of parcel. In addition to indicating the detailed address of the patent office or agency (including postal code), the registered letter should also indicate the words "application documents", "received by the patent office" or "received by the agency of the patent office". The registered letter shall only contain the application documents or other documents of the same application. When mailing, the applicant shall ask the post office staff to clear the postmark date and properly keep the registered receipt stub of the registered letter.
(5) The Patent Office does not accept samples, samples or models when accepting patent applications. In the process of examination, when the applicant submits a sample or model at the request of the examiner and submits it face to face in the window of the patent office, it shall produce a notice of examination opinions; If it is mailed, the words "submit the model at the request of the examiner (name)" shall be written on the mail.
(6) When applying for a patent, a foreigner or foreign unit without a fixed residence or business office in China, or a citizen of China who has lived or worked abroad for a long time, he shall entrust the State Council with a foreign-related patent agency designated by the Patent Office. The above applicant shall not directly mail or submit the application documents to the Patent Office. Units applying for patents or compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan shall also entrust foreign-related patent agencies or domestic patent agencies respectively in accordance with regulations, and shall not submit them by mail or directly to the Patent Office.