Editing of Data Required for American Patent Application
(1) American patent application for invention and design:
1, specification, patent application part and attached drawings
2. affidavit and power of attorney
3. Small individual declaration (the applicant is an individual, or a small enterprise with less than 500 employees, or a non-profit organization)
(2) Temporary application:
1, description, drawings and names, addresses and nationalities of all inventors.
2, small personal declaration
(3) Priority of creditor's rights:
If the same invention (or design) has been applied in other Paris Convention countries, and the original application date is claimed in the United States, an application shall be filed with the United States Patent Office within one year (including Taiwan Province Province) from the application date of the first foreign application (the design is half a year).
(4) novelty requirements (first invention principle and one-year preferential period principle)
An invention loses its novelty if it is patented in the United States or other countries or published in publications, or publicly used or sold in the United States for more than one year; On the other hand, if it is less than one year, it still has the novelty of applying for a patent [1].
Process of changing the legal status of patent (US Patent and Trademark Office)
1.
Provisional patent application
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office provides a lower fee for inventors who file patent applications in the United States for the first time.
The application method of this book-temporary patent application. The provisional patent application shall be counted from the date of filing the application.
12
individual
The pending period of this month, which cannot be extended. For example, the patent number is
59 16285
United States patent application
Provisional patent application.
2.
formal application
The patent inventor may file a formal patent application with the relevant department after preparing the description of the invention and other relevant materials.
Please ask the patent office to accept and handle it. Where a patent has been applied temporarily, it may be twelve days from the date of application.
In a few months, the temporary application will be converted into a formal application. If the defender fails to submit it after the expiration of the temporary application 12 months,
Non-provisional application, provisional application will be considered as waiver and will be published.
3.
Priority application
Priority refers to when the applicant submits a patent cooperation treaty (or other forms of regional patent organization)
When a State party files a patent application,
Applicants have the right to request that the date of the first application be regarded as a later date.
1. Date of patent application. Invention patent is a new patent within 12 months from the date of the first application.
Lishi can file an application for foreign patent priority within six months from the date of the first application.
The effective time of priority is from
Priority begins on the same day and becomes the priority period. For example, the patent number is
672 1490
Foreign priority of patent
exist
1998
year
nine
moon
30
Rihe
1998
year
12
moon
25
Japan proposed.
4.
Continuous application (technical scheme unchanged, protection scope changed)
On the basis of the original application, the scope of patent protection is modified without modifying the substantive content of the invention.
However, the proposed application should usually be modified after final verification and approval, but before the original application is abandoned.
The patent claim, without modifying the patent specification, applies for patent approval and keeps the original case.
Date of application.
5.
Partial application (similar to domestic partial priority provisions)
When the original application needs to add new substantive contents, it shall be based on the original application and not included in the original application.
Before giving up, you can apply for some consecutive cases. For the same part as the original case, the application date is the same as the original case, and a new case is added.
Part, the filing date of the new series of cases.