What are the steps to apply for a patent?

Patent application is a necessary procedure for obtaining patent right. An application for a patent shall be submitted by the applicant to the State Patent Office, which shall approve it and issue a certificate. Including writing patent application materials, waiting for acceptance notice, waiting for patent authorization notice and payment, waiting for patent certificate. The specific steps are as follows:

1. The patent applicant or agent submits the prepared application documents to the State Patent Office.

Specifically, it includes: request, specification, abstract and claim, copy or double-sided photo of my ID card, copy of company business license and copy or scanned copy of organization code. If it is necessary to reduce the fee, it is also necessary to provide a patent fee reduction certificate.

2. The State Patent Office issued a patent acceptance notice and entered the preliminary examination stage.

The first trial is the so-called formal review, which mainly examines whether there are typos in the materials provided and whether the attached drawings are clear.

And mistakes in other documents such as writing.

3. Upon examination and verification, a notice of first-instance qualification or authorization shall be issued. Otherwise, a notice of review opinions or a notice of correction will be issued.

For the invention patent, this is only the first level. The next step is that the patent office will conduct substantive examination according to the applicant's proposal or law, bearing in mind that this deadline is proposed within 3 years from the date of application. This stage is mainly about the novelty of invention patents; Creative and practical reviews.

5. Registration. In the substantive examination stage, if no reason for rejection is found, the Patent Office will issue a decision to grant the patent right, pay the certificate fee and the annual fee for the first year, issue a patent certificate, register and announce it at the same time, and it will take effect from the date of announcement.

Note:?

1, the domestic patent adopts the principle of first application, that is, whoever applies first is considered as whose patent.

2. Pay the annual fee in time after applying for a patent to ensure the validity of the patent.

References:

Patent Application Approval Process-China National Intellectual Property Administration Integrated Service Platform