To apply for a patent for design, you need to prepare the six-sided appearance view of the product, fill in the application for a patent for design together with a brief description of the design, and submit the application documents to the State Patent Office. After submitting the application, you can get the patent acceptance notice in about a week; In about 3-5 months, the Patent Office will issue a notice of granting the design patent right and a notice of handling the registration formalities; After paying the patent registration fee and annual fee, the license can be issued in about two months.
Two. Application for utility model patent and invention patent
Both utility model patents and invention patents need to write patent specifications and submit them to the State Patent Office together with the patent application. As the Patent Law stipulates that the invention patent will only undergo substantive examination after the patent specification of the application is made public, the purpose of submitting an early public statement is to enter the substantive examination as soon as possible, thus shortening the period of patent application. Therefore, the invention patent also needs to submit two documents: the request for prior public statement and the request for substantive examination.
1. After the application for a patent for utility model is submitted, you can get the patent acceptance notice in about one week; About half a year later, the Patent Office issued a notice of granting the patent right of utility model and a notice of handling the registration formalities; After paying the patent registration fee and annual fee, the license can be issued in about two months.
2. After submitting an application for a patent for invention, you can get a patent acceptance notice in about a week; After the application is submitted, the preliminary examination stage will be carried out. If it is qualified, the specification of the applied patent will be disclosed in advance according to the public statement, that is, it will enter the substantive examination stage; Those who pass the actual examination shall be issued a Notice of Granting Invention Patent Right and a Notice of Handling Registration Procedures. After timely payment, it will take about two months to issue the certificate. The application process of invention patent takes about three years.