Please note the following when submitting documents:
(1) The application documents or documents for various formalities submitted to China National Intellectual Property Administration shall be in the format uniformly formulated by China National Intellectual Property Administration. The application documents shall be in duplicate, and the procedural documents may be in duplicate.
(2) A form can only be used for one patent application. For example, an invention patent request can only fill in one invention, and a statement of opinions can only state opinions on a patent application. It is not allowed to fill in several application statements or inventions in an opinion statement or an invention patent request.
(3) Applicants who submit all kinds of documents to China National Intellectual Property Administration should keep the manuscript, so as to ensure the consistency of document filling in the process of application approval, which can be used as a reference when replying to the review opinions.
(4) If the application documents are sent by post, a registered letter shall be used. If you can't send it by registered mail, you can use express mail instead of parcel. In addition to indicating the detailed address (including postal code) of China National Intellectual Property Administration or the patent agency, the registered letter should also indicate the words "application documents", "received by the acceptance office in China National Intellectual Property Administration" or "received by the patent agency in China National Intellectual Property Administration". The application documents should not be submitted by the courier company, and the application date should be based on the date when the China National Intellectual Property Administration courier company and the patent agency actually received the application documents. The registered letter shall only contain the application documents or other documents of the same application. When mailing, the applicant should ask the post office staff to clear the postmark date and properly keep the registered receipt stub.
(5) China National Intellectual Property Administration does not accept samples, samples or models when accepting patent applications. In the process of review, when the applicant submits a sample or model at the request of the examiner, if it is submitted in person at the China National Intellectual Property Administration window, it shall produce a notice of review opinions; The words "submit the model at the request of the inspector (name)" should be written on the email.
(6) When applying for a patent, a foreigner or foreign unit without a fixed residence or business office in China or a China resident or working abroad for a long time shall entrust the State Council to authorize a foreign-related patent agency designated by China National Intellectual Property Administration. The above applicants shall not directly mail or submit application documents to China National Intellectual Property Administration.
Where units or individuals from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan apply for patents, they shall also entrust foreign-related patent agencies or domestic patent agencies respectively in accordance with regulations, and shall not directly mail or submit application documents to China National Intellectual Property Administration.
The application fee and other fees can be paid directly to China National Intellectual Property Administration or the patent agency. An applicant who applies for a patent by post may remit the application fee through a bank or post office as required after receiving the acceptance notice, payment notice or fee reduction approval notice issued by China National Intellectual Property Administration.
At present, banks use electronic transfer and post offices use electronic remittance. When remitting patent fees through banks or post offices, the payer is required to indicate the correct application number or patent number on the remittance slip. The name of the fee paid can be abbreviated. For example, the application fee can be written as "application" and the substantive examination fee can be written as "actual examination". Moreover, the remitter must ask the bank or post office staff to enter the above payment information in the remittance postscript column. If you remit money through the post office, you must also ask the post office staff to record the complete mailing address, including the postal code. No matter how the applicant pays the fee, if the application number and fee name are not specified, or the writing is wrong, it will be deemed that the payment procedures have not been handled.