1. Decryption procedure of patent application (or patent)
1. 1 The applicant (or patentee) requests decryption.
The applicant for a confidential patent application or the patentee of a confidential patent may request decryption in writing. When submitting the request for confidentiality, the applicant (or patentee) shall attach the certificate that the department that originally determined the classification agreed to decrypt it.
The Patent Office shall determine the decryption of the confidential patent application (or patent) requested for decryption, and notify the applicant of the result.
1.2 The Patent Office decrypts it regularly.
The Patent Office reexamines confidential patent applications (or patents) every two years, and if it deems it unnecessary to keep them confidential after reexamination, it shall notify the applicant to decrypt them.
1.3 processing after decryption
The examiner shall mark the decrypted patent application (or patent). Where an application for a patent for invention has not been granted a patent right after decryption, it shall be examined and managed in accordance with the general application for a patent for invention. If it meets the requirements for publication, it shall be published and a pamphlet on application for a patent for invention shall be published; Where an application for a patent for utility model has not been granted a patent right after decryption, it shall be examined and managed in accordance with the general application for a patent for utility model.