Secondly, it mainly depends on the purpose of your application for this invention patent. For example, our patent service divides patent application agency services into two types according to the different purposes of customers applying for patents:
1. Certificate category: refers to the purpose of the enterprise to obtain the authorization certificate, and does not pay much attention to the scope of patent protection. Generally applicable to the needs of customers in tax planning, share pricing, pledge loans, brand promotion, government projects and so on.
2. Protection category: refers to the purpose of obtaining patents for enterprises to form good protection for products, and pay more attention to the scope of patent protection, which is generally applicable to the needs of customers in litigation rights protection, business model building, attracting financing, patent transfer, patent licensing, business transformation and so on.
The process of patent application:
1, to determine whether the invention belongs to patentable content;
2, determine the invention content can apply for what kind of patent type (invention, utility model, design).
Second, sign an agency agreement.
The purpose of signing the agency agreement at this time is to clarify the rights and obligations between the applicant and the patent agency, mainly to restrain the patent agent from keeping the contents of the applicant's inventions confidential.
Third, technical disclosure
1. The applicant provides the patent agent with background information about the invention-creation or entrusts the retrieval of relevant contents;
2. The applicant introduces the contents of the invention in detail to help the patent agent fully understand the contents of the invention.
Fourth, determine the application plan.
1。 On the basis of understanding the invention and creation, the agent will make a preliminary judgment on the prospect of the patent application and advise the applicant to withdraw the application with little possibility of patent authorization. At this time, the agency will charge a small amount of consulting fees, and most of the application agency fees will be returned to the applicant.
2.。 If the patent authorization has a bright future, the patent agent will put forward a clear application plan, scope and content of protection, and start preparing a formal application with the consent of the applicant.
Verb (abbreviation of verb) Preparation of application documents
1, writing patent application documents;
2. Make application documents;
3. Submit a patent application and obtain a patent application number.
Review of intransitive verbs
The Chinese Patent Office examines the patent application documents, and the patent agent makes patent corrections, replies and changes during the examination process. When necessary, the applicant shall cooperate with the patent agent to complete the above work.
Seven. Review conclusion
China Patent Office will authorize or reject the examination conclusion according to the examination results. Generally, this process takes about 6 months for design, 2 months for utility model 10- 12 months, and 2-4 years for invention patent.