What materials do I need to apply for a design patent?
Design drawings or photos should be drawings or photos of different sides or states of each product. Generally, there should be six views (front view, bottom view, left view, right view, top view and back view), and if necessary, there should also be sectional views, cross-sectional views, service state reference drawings and three-dimensional views. 1, design drawings or photos 2. Design brief description is a brief description and supplement to design drawings or photos. There shall be no commercial propaganda language, nor shall it be used to explain the purpose and performance of the product. The brief explanation should be concise and easy to understand. In any of the following circumstances, a brief explanation shall be given: (1). Omitting Views: When designing a product that is symmetrical left and right, up and down, and front and back, a view can be omitted, but it should be explained in language, such as "The left view and the right view are symmetrical (the same), and the right view is omitted". In addition, the product does not belong to the direction of the creative part, and the view can also be omitted, such as "the bottom of the product does not belong to the creative part, and the bottom view is omitted". (2) Highlight the main creative parts. If the design is complicated, the existing design parts and innovative parts are not easy to be noticed, and major ideas or design points can be designated to strengthen patent protection. For example, the design of the table lamp, its innovation only involves the lampshade, and other parts are all existing designs, which should be explained. (3) Supplementing the contents that are difficult to express in the picture or photo: If the product appearance or part of the appearance is made of transparent materials, it is impossible to express "transparency" in the picture, you can draw a marking line on the transparent part of the picture or photo, and note A, B, etc. And in the brief description, a and b are transparent parts. (4) When the drawings or photos only show part of the product: for longer products, such as profiles and I-beams, the length can be drawn, and the total length and aspect ratio of the product can be explained in a brief description. Some textiles, such as carpets, can be omitted, and only local patterns and lines need to be drawn, but their length, width and dimensions should be stated in the brief description. (5) When the effect of the design product is related to the special material manufactured, the material shall be indicated in the brief description. (6) For the design products that need color protection, in addition to providing two sets of colors and two sets of black pictures or photos, the colors that should be protected for the products should also be explained in the brief description. (7) For newly developed products, especially those not listed in the classification table of design, the use method and purpose of the products shall be clearly stated in the brief description, so as to clarify the protection category and the supplementary classification table of the Patent Office. A request for a patent for design in duplicate; Design drawings or photos in duplicate; Where color protection is required, two drawings or photos in color and black and white shall be submitted; A brief description of the design in duplicate; Where it is required to slow down various patent fees, it may make two requests for fee reduction at the same time. Design application official fee application fee: 500 yuan reduces the application fee by 85%; 75 yuan reduced the application fee by 70%; Application fee: 150 yuan; Measures to reduce patent fees in China National Intellectual Property Administration: If qualified applicants are individuals or units, the fees can be reduced by 85%; otherwise, the fees can be reduced by 70%.