Legal subjectivity:
If the patent types applied by the applicant are utility models and designs, it generally takes eighteen months. Utility models and designs do not need to undergo substantive examination. If the patent administration department determines that the patent application conditions are met after preliminary examination, it will make a decision to grant a utility model patent or a design patent, issue a corresponding patent certificate, and register it at the same time. and announcements. It usually takes three years for an applicant to apply for an invention patent. After the applicant submits the application materials, the patent administration department will conduct a substantive review of the application within three years. If the application fails to request a substantive review within the time limit, the invention patent application will be deemed to have been withdrawn. Legal objectivity:
Article 42 of the "Patent Law of the People's Republic of China" The term of invention patent rights is twenty years, the term of utility model patent rights is ten years, and the term of design patent rights is The period is fifteen years, calculated from the date of application. Article 93 of the "Implementing Rules for the Patent Law of the People's Republic of China" When applying for a patent and handling other procedures with the patent administration department of the State Council, the following fees shall be paid: (1) Application fee, application surcharge, publication and printing fee, Priority claim fee; (2) Invention patent application substantive examination fee and reexamination fee; (3) Patent registration fee, announcement printing fee, and annual fee; (4) Rights restoration request fee and time limit extension request fee; (5) Bibliographic matters Change fee, patent right evaluation report request fee, invalidation declaration request fee. The payment standards for the various fees listed in the preceding paragraph shall be stipulated by the price management department and the financial department of the State Council in conjunction with the patent administration department of the State Council.