What is the patent number?

Patent application is a necessary procedure for obtaining patent right. To obtain a patent right, the applicant shall file an application with the State Patent Office, which shall approve and issue a certificate. It is the inventor, designer or other subject with the right to apply that requests the Patent Office for the patent right of invention or design.

1. What is the patent number?

The patent number is the number given when the patent right is granted, and it is a submission number. The submission number is the serial number compiled by each industrial property office when publishing patent documents (including public publication and reading and copying only).

Second, the difference between the patent number and the application number?

1. The patent application number is an important content in the acceptance notice sent by China National Intellectual Property Administration to the patent applicant. It consists of eight digits plus a decimal point and a number (or the English letter X). The first two digits represent the year number of the patent application year, the third digit represents the category of the patent application ("1" represents the invention patent, "2" represents the utility model patent and "3" represents the design patent), and the last five digits represent the serial number of a patent application this year, and one digit after the decimal point or.

2. Only when the patent application is granted the patent right, the patent application number becomes the patent number.