What should I do after the patent is accepted?

Pay the application fee within 2 months after acceptance, and pay the substantive examination fee within 3 years after acceptance if it is an invention patent.

After paying the fee, the Patent Office will send an examination opinion to you or your agency, and reply within the prescribed time limit.

The patent application that passed the examination was granted the patent right. When you grant a patent, you must pay the corresponding fees according to the date on the notice, so as to go through the patent registration procedures and make a patent certificate.

After receiving the patent certificate, the annual fee should be paid on time every year to safeguard the patent right.

If you want to apply for patent protection abroad, you need to apply abroad within 12 months from the date of application. You can choose to apply for a patent separately in each country, or you can choose the PCT method. PCT is to submit an international application for PCT to the China Patent Office, and then the China Patent Office will forward the document to the International Intellectual Property Organization for filing. You can apply to each designated country through the International Intellectual Property Organization.