2. China National Intellectual Property Administration Patent Office accepts applications. If it is an electronic application, it usually takes 2 days. If it is a paper application, it will take about half a month to mail it.
3. The applicant pays the application fee, and the payment period is 2 months.
It takes about two weeks for the Patent Office to classify the application documents.
5. It takes about 3-5 months for the Patent Office to make a preliminary examination of the application documents.
6. After passing the preliminary examination, a patent for utility model or design is granted, and the application procedure for a patent for utility model or design ends, and the invention patent enters the substantive examination procedure according to the applicant's request for substantive examination.
7. It will take about 65,438+0.5-2.5 years for this invention to be substantially tested.
8. If it passes the substantive examination, the patent right shall be granted.
9. The general application process takes 2-3 years for invention, 5-8 months for utility model and 4-7 months for design. Time required for the acceleration process: the invention can be accelerated when it enters the actual examination, within one year after the acceleration, within two months of the utility model and within two months of the design.