1. Provide a disclosure letter and entrust an agency to write the application documents, which usually takes 20 days to one month (if you do not entrust an agency, you can omit this step);
2. Submit the application documents, obtain the acceptance notice from the Patent Office, determine the application date, and submit an advance disclosure statement and request substantive examination on the day of submitting the documents, which can speed up the examination process;
3. The Patent Office’s review of the patent The application documents will undergo a formal review, which will take about 2-3 months. After passing the preliminary review, they will enter the public preparation stage;
4. The Patent Office will publish the invention application documents, which will take about 6-8 months;
< p>5. The Patent Office conducts a substantive examination of the invention patent document, which takes about one and a half to two years. During this period, the examiner communicates with the applicant on the essential content of the invention, that is, the novelty, creativity and practicality (if the agency is entrusted, communicate with the agency) (to determine the appropriate protection scope of the invention), and the back-and-forth communication may go back and forth several times until the changes are made to the examiner’s satisfaction;6. The Patent Office issues a notification of authorization;
7. The applicant goes through the procedures for obtaining the patent certificate;
8. The patent certificate will be obtained in about 2-3 months.