Appearance design is a new design with aesthetic feeling and suitable for industrial application based on the shape, pattern or combination of products, or the combination of color and shape and pattern.
1, protect macro products, and the shapes, patterns and colors of products that can be seen by the eyes.
2. Procedure: After submitting the application documents, the Patent Office will issue an acceptance notice (which can be accepted on the same day), and then the Patent Office will conduct a preliminary examination. If it is qualified, the Patent Office will issue an authorization notice and then issue a patent certificate.
You can get the certificate in about 10 months, and the guarantee period is 10 years, counting from the application date.
3. After authorization, the patentee has the following rights: to exploit the patent by himself, to license others to exploit it, to transfer the patent, and to stop others from infringing.
4. Fees: the company's application fee is 500 yuan, the certificate fee after authorization is 205 yuan, and the annual fee for the current year is1-3,600 yuan; 4-5, 900; 6-8, 1200; 9- 10, 2000。
Personal application: the application fee is RMB certificate fee of 75 yuan 205, and the annual fee for the first three years from the year of authorization is only 15%.
5, whether the patent is authorized, the examiner in accordance with the patent law, detailed rules and review guidelines for review, need to obtain a patent, that is, does not belong to the existing design; No other entity or individual filed an application with the Patent Office for the same design before the application date, and it was recorded in the patent documents published after the application date; Compared with the existing design or the combination of existing designs, there are obvious differences. Authorized design shall not conflict with prior rights. Because the examiner does not search, the application for a patent for appearance will generally be authorized.
6. When applying, a request, a picture or photograph of the design and a brief explanation shall be submitted.
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