If you do not engage in patent agency business or patent management within five years, your patent agent qualification certificate will automatically become invalid. In addition, if punished, the qualification of patent agent can be revoked.
The National Patent Agent Qualification Examination is a professional qualification examination held in China National Intellectual Property Administration, starting from 1992 (Ren Shennian). A patent agent refers to a person who has obtained the qualification of a patent agent, holds a patent agent's work permit and is engaged in patent agency work full-time or part-time. The national patent agent qualification examination is held once a year, generally at 1 1 in more than a dozen test sites across the country. Within three years from the year when a candidate obtains a qualified record of a certain part of the results, if both parts are qualified, the evaluation Committee office will issue a general qualified notice. After receiving the notice that the total score is qualified, candidates apply to the assessment committee. If they meet the relevant provisions of the Patent Agency Regulations after examination, the Patent Agent Assessment Committee will issue the Patent Agent Qualification Certificate.
Patent agents are assigned by patent agencies to engage in the following businesses:
(1) patent application consultation;
(2) Acting as an agent to write patent application documents, apply for patents, go through examination and approval procedures and go through various procedures in post-examination affairs;
(3) Acting as an agent for the examination of patent applications, the revocation or invalidation of patent rights, or providing consultation on the above procedures;
(four) to handle the transfer of patented technology or provide consultation;
(5) Other patent-related matters.