Confidentiality review is a preliminary review made by the patent office to see whether the patent content involves national security or major interests; Those involving national security or vital interests shall be kept confidential in accordance with state regulations. To put it in a popular translation, if your invention wants to go abroad, you must first let professionals check to see if there is anything that is not allowed to be opened to the outside world.
To obtain a patent right, a patent application must be made public according to law. Published patents are usually advanced scientific and technological achievements. If you go abroad directly without confidentiality review, it is likely to affect national security or major national interests! First of all, we should know that there are patent applications for inventions, utility models and designs in China. Where a design application is submitted to a foreign country, there is no need to submit a confidentiality review; The application for a patent for invention and the application for a patent for utility model originated in China, and confidentiality review is required when submitting a patent application to a foreign country!