To apply for a patent, you can entrust a patent agency to handle it, or you can submit the patent application documents to the Patent Office by yourself. The specific process is as follows:
1) Prepare patent application documents (including claims, specifications, drawings of specifications, abstracts and drawings of abstracts).
2) Fill in the patent application request (including invention name, applicant, inventor and related information, etc.). ).
3) Pay the patent application fee.
4) After submitting these to the Patent Office, you can get the application date and application number, which are the only numbers to be examined by the Patent Office in the future. The formal admission notice will be issued within two weeks after the application date.
5) When the Patent Office examines and issues a notice of examination opinions or a notice of correction, the applicant needs to reply within the prescribed time limit. After the examination is finally qualified, the patent office issues a notice of authorization, indicating that it agrees to authorize.
6) The announcement of patent authorization shall take effect after the applicant registers (pays) the authorization.
China patents include inventions, utility models and designs:
The standard official fee for applying for an invention patent is 3450 (including the application fee of 950 and the substantive examination fee of 2500), which can be reduced to 1070 if it meets the conditions of company fee reduction and exemption, and 560 if it meets the conditions of personal fee reduction and exemption;
The standard official fee for an application for a patent for utility model or design is 500, which can be reduced to 150 if it meets the conditions of company fee reduction and exemption, and 75 if it meets the conditions of personal fee reduction and exemption.