How to apply for a patent abroad

Steps to apply for a foreign patent:

1. Submit an application for a patent for invention-creation to the Chinese Intellectual Property Office, and the filing date of the application is the priority date.

2. Within 65,438+02 months (invention or utility model) from the priority date, submit an international application to the PCT Office of the Chinese Intellectual Property Office or the International Bureau, that is, enter the international stage. Complete the acceptance, retrieval, modification (optional), publicity and preliminary examination (optional) of international applications in the international stage.

3. Within 30 months from the priority date, go through all kinds of formalities for entering the national phase with the intellectual property institutions of other countries that the applicant wants to be protected, and then these countries will review the invention and creation according to their own laws, and then grant the patent right or reject the application.