What should I do when applying for a patent for the first time?

What should I do when applying for a patent for the first time? Novices who apply for patents are always at a loss, and sometimes it is unsuccessful to step by step. This article teaches you to pay attention to two common mistakes made by novices: inquiring about patents and not being creative. What should I do when applying for a patent for the first time? Most people should check whether the patent has been registered before applying for a patent. So, do you know how to inquire about a company's patents? Method 1: Log in to official website, China Intellectual Property Office. According to the relevant navigation to understand the patent information, friends who want to apply for a patent had better know the patent application requirements in detail. About the patent application process, official website has published it in detail, and friends who need it can read it in detail. Download the fixed form and prepare the corresponding patent application materials. Method 2: Log on to the patent retrieval website of China Intellectual Property Office. Open the patent query interface. When you move the mouse to a text box, there will be a corresponding prompt, which can be a series of information such as person, type, time and region to query the corresponding patent to avoid duplication. If you don't check the patent number, there will be many similar results. You can rule them out one by one according to your own needs. Method 3: Other websites can also query. For example: China Intellectual Property Office. Click Advanced Search directly on the upper right to enter the query interface. According to the name and the prompt at the back, you can make a query. According to the fuzzy query of the domain, many results can be queried. If you want to apply for a patent, it is suggested to search in the patent search before applying, so as to avoid the phenomenon of repeated application. Some people apply for a patent for the first time and are pointed out that the invention patent is not creative when they meet the notice of patent application. Do you know how to reply to this situation? In fact, the general examination opinions of invention patents all say that the patent requirements are not creative. Don't worry too much. In the past two years, it is normal for the Intellectual Property Office to control the licensing rate and improve the quality of patents. Let's first see if the examiner says that all the claims are not creative, and are there any evaluated claims? If so, for the need of authorization, we can consider mentioning the creative claim that the examiner has not commented on to the exclusive right. In this case, the chief inspector will accept and grant the patent right. Second, if the examiner says that all the claims are judged to be not creative, then you need to consider defending yourself with the examiner. Does the examiner make sense? Is the comparison file found really the same as your invention patent? What's the difference? Whether the difference is easy to think of as the examiner said, or whether the comparison file gives technical enlightenment, is generally different from the comparison file in terms of the role played by different technical features in the invention, so the comparison file has no technical enlightenment to defend. In this way, how to explain the technical scheme, so as to distinguish your invention patent application from the comparison document and convince the examiner.