1. Searching and viewing patent technology before application is the way to query patent technology literature. Of course, the patent library contains different kinds of patented technologies and inventions. Patent library is a long-term incremental preservation of patent technology, so it is called patent literature, which has a way for future generations to use and learn from.
2. Legal basis: Article 8 of People's Republic of China (PRC) Patent Law.
Unless otherwise agreed, the right to apply for a patent belongs to the invention-creation completed in cooperation with two or more units or individuals, or the invention-creation entrusted by other units or individuals; After the application is approved, the applicant unit or individual shall be the patentee.
Article 9
The same invention can only be granted a patent right. However, if the same applicant applies for a patent for utility model and a patent for invention at the same time on the same day, and the patent for utility model obtained earlier has not been terminated, and the applicant abandons the patent for utility model, the patent for invention may be granted.
Where two or more applicants apply for a patent for the same invention-creation, the patent right shall be granted to the first applicant.
2. What are the requirements for applying for a patent?
The requirements for applying for a patent are as follows:
1, it is necessary that the invention and utility model granted patent right should be novel, creative and practical;
2. It is forbidden to apply for a patent for an invention that violates national laws, social morality or hinders public interests. Rules and methods of intellectual activities, methods of diagnosis and treatment of diseases, foods, beverages and condiments, medicines and chemical methods, animal and plant varieties and substances obtained by nuclear transformation are not patented.