Is the appearance patent a preliminary examination?

Appearance patent is not a preliminary examination! Design patent: the full name of design patent is the object of patent right and the object of patent law protection, which refers to the design that should be granted patent right according to law.

Design: refers to the design of industrial products, that is, the style of industrial products. It is a new design with aesthetic feeling and suitable for industrial application based on the shape, pattern or combination of products and the combination of color and shape and pattern.

(The same types are: invention patents, utility model patents, etc. ! )

Preliminary examination is a process of patent application: China implements a preliminary examination system for patent application for design. During the preliminary examination, the examiner will issue a notice of correction to the formal problems in the application documents. The applicant makes corrections to the notice. At the same time, the examiner will examine whether it belongs to the design patent protection customer. If there are customers who are not protected by the design patent, the examiner will issue a notice of examination opinions, and the applicant will reply to the notice of examination opinions or modify the application documents.

Authorization: After passing the preliminary examination, the examiner will issue a notice of granting the patent right. After receiving the notice of granting the patent right, the applicant needs to go through the following registration procedures: pay the patent registration fee, the annual fee for authorization, the printing fee for the announcement and the stamp duty on the patent certificate within the prescribed time limit.

Issuance of certificates: Applicants can obtain patent certificates after going through the registration procedures. This period of time is about 2-3 months.

To sum up, the two dimensions are different and there is no comparability! As for the official price of 2400 yuan to issue an evaluation after issuance, it should be the regulation that the agency you entrust collects fees. It is recommended that you handle it in an open and transparent agency, so as to avoid charging many times in the process of obtaining the certificate for a long time, which exceeds the expected cost of applying for a patent.