What courses do patent agents need to take?

1. China patent legal knowledge: The examination questions will cover China's patent laws, regulations and departmental rules, authorization standards and approval procedures for three types of patents, reexamination and invalidation, patent documents, etc.

2. Relevant legal knowledge: The test questions will cover the contents of relevant laws (focusing on the general principles of civil law, civil procedure law, contract law, administrative procedure law, etc.). ), other intellectual property laws and international treaties related to intellectual property (with emphasis on TRIPS Agreement, Paris Convention and Patent Cooperation Treaty).

3. Patent practice: The examination questions will involve the writing of patent application documents, opinions, reexamination requests, invalidation requests or defenses, patent infringement litigation complaints or defenses and other documents.

In China, the examination of patent legal knowledge subjects and related legal knowledge subjects adopts multiple-choice questions and answer sheets read by a painting machine, while the examination of patent practical subjects adopts the examination method of discussing answers.

Admission criteria: the criteria for selecting the best candidates according to a certain proportion of the number of people taking the examination (and setting up a control line for the scores of patent practice subjects), and the admission ratio shall be determined by the patent agent assessment committee through consultation.