According to the provisions of China's patent law, an invention patent generally goes through the following procedures from application to authorization:
1. Generally, it takes 20 days to 1 month to provide the disclosure and entrust an agency to write the application documents.
2. Submit the application documents, get the notification of acceptance from the Patent Office, determine the application date, and submit an early public statement and request substantive examination on the day of submitting the documents, which can speed up the examination process.
3. The Patent Office will formally review the patent application documents for about 2-3 months, and enter the public preparation stage after the first trial is passed.
It takes about 6-8 months for the patent office to publish the invention application documents.
5. The time for the Patent Office to substantially examine the invention patent documents is about one and a half to two years, during which the examiner communicates with the applicant on the substantive content of the invention, namely novelty, creativity and practicality (entrusting the agency to communicate with the agency to determine the appropriate protection scope of the invention), and this communication may be repeated many times until it is revised to the satisfaction of the examiner.
6, the patent office issued a notice of authorization
7. The applicant shall go through the formalities for obtaining the patent certificate.
8. It takes about 2-3 months to get the patent certificate.
The whole process lasts about two and a half to three years, depending on the speed of the examiner and the openness of the applicant.
Time required for patent application for utility model and design:
1. It usually takes 10 working days to provide disclosure and entrust an agency to write application documents.
2. Submit the application documents, obtain the notification of acceptance from the Patent Office, and determine the application date.
3. It takes about 3-6 months for the Patent Office to formally review the patent application documents.
4, the patent office issued a notice of authorization
The applicant shall go through the formalities of obtaining the patent certificate.
6. It takes about 2-3 months to get the patent certificate.
The whole process lasts about 1 year, and the specific time depends on the examiner's review speed and the applicant's information disclosure.
7, authorization, licensing matters (pay the license fee, the patent certificate will be issued in about two months) Note that the annual fee is paid one month before and after the application date every year.