What are the types of patent information and patents?

Patent information refers to all kinds of patent-related information based on patent documents, processed by information means such as decomposition, processing, indexing, statistics, analysis, integration and transformation, and disseminated through various information means.

Patents are divided into valid patents and invalid patents according to the ownership of the owner.

Valid patent: Generally speaking, a valid patent refers to a patent that is still in a valid state after the patent application is authorized. In order to make the patent in a valid state, the patent right is still within the legal protection period, and the patentee also needs to pay the annual fee according to the regulations.

Invalid patent: after the patent application is authorized, it is overdue or the patentee fails to pay it in time.