How to apply for a patent for e-commerce products?

The competition among online stores is becoming more and more fierce, and some online stores have been complained by others about product appearance patent infringement and forced to be removed from the shelves. Some customers say that it is obviously their own products, such as toys, electronic products, food packaging and so on. Just when you sell well, someone maliciously applies for your design patent first, and then complains about your infringement. This is a common occurrence.

Therefore, designers should apply for appearance patent protection before product sales.

Rule 60 of Taobao Rules refers to improper use of other people's rights, which means that users have the following behaviors:

(1) The seller improperly uses the trademark rights, copyright rights and other rights of others in the published commodity information or the used font name and domain name;

(two) the seller sells goods suspected of improper use of other people's trademark rights, copyrights, patents and other rights;

(3) The commodity information released by the seller or other information used by the seller causes confusion, misunderstanding or unfair competition among consumers.