Legal basis: measures to standardize patent application.
Article 2 The term "abnormal patent application" as mentioned in these Measures refers to any entity or individual submitting various patent applications, representing patents, transferring patent application rights or patent rights, etc. Independent or joint, not for the purpose of protecting innovation, not based on real invention and creation activities, seeking illegitimate interests or fictional innovation performance and service performance.
Article 3 If China National Intellectual Property Administration discovers or learns to report in the international stage of patent application acceptance, preliminary examination, actual examination, reexamination or international application, and it is preliminarily determined that there are abnormal patent applications as mentioned in these Measures, it may form a special examination working group or authorize examiners to start special examination procedures in accordance with these Measures, handle them in batches, notify the applicants, and ask them to immediately stop relevant behaviors, voluntarily withdraw relevant patent applications or legal procedures within the prescribed time limit, or make statements.