Patents that have passed the patent protection period.

1. The term of the patent right for utility model is ten years, counting from the date of application. The consultant said that the other party's utility model patent was "200 1 application", so the patent protection period was very short.

Second, now the consultant can also be the agent or exclusive agent of the other party, but once the patent right expires, the patented technology becomes public technology, and anyone can use it directly, so there will be no so-called exclusive agent.

Three. To sum up, because the other party's statement is exaggerated, the consultant may ask the other party to reduce the agency fee or consider not cooperating with it.

Fourth, the legal basis:

Article 42 of the Patent Law of People's Republic of China (PRC):

The term of the invention patent right is 20 years, and the term of the utility model patent right and the design patent right is 10 years, both counting from the date of application.