Applying for patent priority has the following functions: 1, encouraging inventors to actively apply for patents and promoting the development of patent field; 2, can urge inventors to speed up the research process; 3. It is beneficial to the conversion of patent application types; 4. It is conducive to strengthening the protection of related patents; 5. Other functions of patent application priority.
Legal objectivity:
Article 29 of the Patent Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) Where an applicant applies for a patent for invention or utility model for the first time in a foreign country within 12 months, or applies for a patent for design for the first time in a foreign country within 6 months, and applies for a patent on the same subject in China, he may enjoy the priority according to the agreement signed by the foreign country with China or the international treaty to which * * * is a party, or according to the principle of mutual recognition of priority. Applicants who file a patent application for invention or utility model for the first time in China within 12 months, or apply for a patent for design for the first time in China within 6 months may enjoy priority.