What is the time limit for handling patent infringement disputes?

1. What is the time limit for handling patent infringement disputes? If the request meets the prescribed conditions, the administrative department for patent affairs shall, within 5 working days from the date of receiving the request, file a case and notify the requester, and designate more than 3 singular contractors to handle patent infringement disputes; Where the request does not meet the prescribed conditions, the administrative department for patent affairs shall, within 5 working days from the date of receiving the request, notify the requester that it will not be accepted and explain the reasons. Send a copy of the request and its attachments to the respondent within 5 working days from the date of filing the case, and ask it to submit a reply within 15 days from the date of receipt and provide copies of the reply according to the number of applicants. When handling patent infringement disputes, the administrative department for patent affairs shall close the case within 4 months from the date of filing the case. If the case is particularly complicated and needs to be postponed, it shall be approved by the person in charge of the patent administration department. The approved extension period shall not exceed 1 month at the longest. Second, how to deal with patent infringement disputes 1. Patent infringement disputes are caused by infringement. First of all, it can be settled as a civil dispute by the parties through consultation, but if they are unwilling to settle it through consultation, they can bring a lawsuit directly to the people's court. Consultation is not a prerequisite for prosecution; If negotiation fails first, it does not affect the direct prosecution to the people's court. 2. If the parties to a patent infringement dispute are unwilling to negotiate or fail to negotiate, and do not bring a lawsuit to the people's court, they may request the administrative department for patent affairs to handle it, that is, it is allowed to take administrative measures. 3. When handling a case, the administrative department for patent affairs finds that the infringement is established, it shall order the infringer to stop the infringement immediately. If a party refuses to accept the handling, he may bring an administrative lawsuit, and the administrative department is the defendant. 4. If the infringer fails to prosecute or stop the infringing act after the department in charge of patent work has dealt with it, it can be enforced to the people's court, and the treatment made by the department in charge of patent work is backed by a strong force. 5. The department in charge of patent work can mediate the amount of infringement compensation according to the request of the parties to the patent dispute. If mediation fails, the parties may bring a civil lawsuit to the people's court. Because mediation and handling are different, the administrative department is only a question of whether the work is effective and does not take administrative measures, so it should not be the defendant, but only the third person between the parties. 6. In the above process, the protection of patent rights has played the role of judicial protection and administrative protection at the same time, and the parties to patent infringement disputes have also been given the right to choose judicial and administrative channels to facilitate the implementation of patent protection. Patent infringement dispute is also a kind of high-incidence infringement dispute in contemporary China, but as it belongs to a kind of intellectual property infringement dispute, it may need special court jurisdiction, and the court level under jurisdiction is at least intermediate. China has also set up courts in some big cities to handle such intellectual property disputes. However, if the patent authorities handle infringement disputes, they will usually close the case within four months after filing the case.