Application process for invention patent:
1. Search for the same type of patent, either independently or by entrusting an agency to search more comprehensively.
2. Prepare the application documents and submit them to the application step.
3. Get the acceptance notice.
4. Preliminary review. Before the preliminary examination, the application for a patent for invention must first be examined for confidentiality, and if it needs to be kept confidential, it shall be handled according to the confidentiality procedure.
5. announcement stage.
6. substantive examination. To conduct a comprehensive review of whether the patent application is novel, creative, practical and other substantive conditions stipulated in the patent law.
7. authorization stage.
preparation of application materials for invention patent:
request, claim, specification, specification drawings, specification abstract, abstract drawings,
Technical Disclosure Book,
applicant's identity certificate: copy of business license applied by company and copy of ID card applied by natural person
It takes about 2 years to authorize an invention patent from the date when the patent application documents are submitted to the Patent Office.
all patents were applied in China National Intellectual Property Administration.