I. Patent authorization 1. What is patent authorization? Patent grant refers to the arrangement of relevant funds in the departmental budget of the Municipal Intellectual Property Office, and the grant for the applicant to apply for a patent or carry out patent-related work. Patent grants are divided into general grants and special grants. Patent funding needs to be approved before it can be obtained, which has certain requirements for patents; There are also provisions on the application time and scope of acceptance. The enterprise must apply within the specified time, otherwise it will be regarded as giving up. 2. The government subsidizes (1) the domestic application at the national level. For the China patent application submitted by China applicants to China National Intellectual Property Administration, China, the patent fee can be reduced. At present, the fees that can be deferred include: application fee (including printing fee and surcharge), examination fee for invention patent substance, reexamination fee and annual fee for three years from the year when the patent right is granted. In terms of foreign applications, China applicants who apply for patents in countries and regions outside China can get state funding within a certain amount, which can include official fees paid for applying for foreign patents, search fees paid to patent search agencies and service fees paid to agencies. (2) At the local government level, in addition to state funding, local governments at all levels also have different levels of funding policies for local applicants, including application fee funding, incremental subsidies for patent applications, and interest subsidies in intellectual property pledge loans. (3) It is important that applicants can apply for national and local funding.
Two. Patent Award "China Patent Award" is the only government award for patent inventions in China. China Patent Award was established by China National Intellectual Property Administration on 1989, and the selection cycle is once a year.
China patent award standard not only emphasizes the technical level and innovation of the project, but also pays attention to its application in the process of market transformation, and also puts forward requirements for its protection and management.
In addition to the national patent awards, different provinces (cities) have also set up provincial (city) patent awards according to the specific conditions of their respective provinces (cities). Policy basis The current provisions on subsidy policy mainly include: China National Intellectual Property Administration patent fee standard, measures for the management of special funds for subsidizing foreign patent applications, and measures for patent subsidies in various cities.