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Each has its own characteristics and chooses the United States as needed: The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is responsible for accepting, examining and approving patent and trademark applications. The United States promulgated and implemented the first patent law in 1790. The current patent law was promulgated in 1952, and has been revised, supplemented and improved many times since then, forming a set of detailed legislation including invention patents, appearance patents and plant patents. The more important amendments to the American patent law are: 1984 1 1. 10, the U.S. congress made a major revision to the patent law, stipulating that the patent protection period of drugs and related products can be appropriately extended. At the end of 1994, the US Congress passed the Uruguay Round Agreement Law, which changed the protection period of the original 17 from the date of authorization to 20 years from the date of application (applicable to applications filed after June 8, 1995). The American Patent Protection Act (AIPA), which came into effect in March 2000, has many important provisions written directly into the patent law, including changing the non-public examination system into the early public delayed examination system to ensure the patent protection period of the inventor. The signing of the bill became an important milestone in the history of the US patent system and the US Patent and Trademark Office. There are three kinds of patent protection in the United States: invention patent, plant patent and appearance patent. The American patent system has some unique characteristics. For example, the first invention system: the United States implements the "first invention system", not the first application system implemented in most countries in the world. "Invention takes precedence" means that the patent application must be filed by the inventor, who can transfer the right to apply at the same time or after filing the patent application. Therefore, the right holders who often appear in American patent documents are inventors and transferees. Temporary application: The American patent system allows inventors to submit "temporary applications". Provisional patent application is a form of patent application issued by the United States on June 8 1995 after the Uruguay Round negotiations. It establishes a "domestic priority" system for applications filed in USPTO and wins valuable time for applicants who try to improve their inventions or raise funds to apply for patents in a low-cost and simple way. For a long time, USPTO has implemented a closed review system (after the formal review is qualified, the Patent Office directly conducts substantive review). However, with the substantial increase in the number of patent applications and the lack of examination resources, the trial period of patent applications is too long, some as long as ten years or even longer (the so-called American-style "submarine patent"). This situation obviously cannot fully reflect the legislative purpose of the modern patent system, that is, to exchange open technology for legal protection. At present, most countries adopt the system of early disclosure and delayed examination, which makes the patent information published as soon as possible, promotes the application and innovation of technology and avoids duplication of work. Under the general trend, the American Inventors Protection Act (AIPA), which came into effect in March 2000, stipulates that applications for patents for inventions and plants filed on or after October 29th, 2000 (excluding design patents) should be made public at an early stage, that is, from the effective filing date to the expiration of 18 months. In addition, AIPA also stipulates that if an applicant does not want to be made public without examination, he can make a request at the time of application, and guarantees that the application will only be made in the United States and other countries that are not open in1August, and such applications will not be made public before being approved. During the period from public application to patent authorization, the applicant will enjoy the temporary right to claim appropriate royalties for the manufacture, use, sale or import of others. USPTO issued the notice of "Opening1June 8 Patent Application" in April 2000, and issued the formal regulations in September of the same year. Since March, 20065438 15, the public specification of the invention patent application has been officially published in accordance with the provisions of AIPA. Japan: Japan Patent Office is responsible for the acceptance, examination and approval of patent and trademark applications. Japan's patent system was established in 1885 (Meiji 18). After two major revisions, the current patent law was formed after numerous minor revisions on the basis of the patent law implemented in April 1960 (Showa 35). There are three kinds of patent protection in Japan: invention, utility model and design. These three kinds of patents are regulated by corresponding laws: franchise law (patent law), utility model (utility model) and design law. The three patent laws also have their own supplementary laws or regulations. For example, corresponding to the franchise law, there are the franchise law implementation law, the franchise law implementation order (decree) and the franchise law implementation rules (provincial decree). Characteristics of Japanese patent system: Japanese law stipulates that if certain conditions are met, the application categories of invention, utility model and design can be converted to each other within a certain period of time. This system is convenient for the applicant to change the protection category after filing the application and choose the protection means according to the needs. For example, if an application for a patent for invention is rejected for creative reasons in the actual examination process, the applicant may request to convert the application for invention into a utility model within 30 days from the date of receiving the notice of rejection, so as to convert the application for invention that cannot meet the creative requirements into a utility model protection. An application for utility model can be converted into an application for a patent for invention within 3 years from the date of application. Where an application for change is filed before the authorization of the utility model, the original application for utility model shall be deemed to have been withdrawn; If it is put forward after the authorization of the utility model, the original utility model is deemed to have been abandoned. However, whether an application for a patent for invention can be authorized will be determined through the substantive examination procedure. Japanese design applications include the following categories: complete set design, similar design, confidential design and partial design.