Can an individual apply for a patent?

Individuals are individuals who can apply for patents. The process of patent application is as follows: 1. It usually takes 20 days to one month to provide disclosure and entrust an agency to write application documents (this step can be omitted if there is no entrusted agency). 2. Submit the application documents, obtain the notification of acceptance from the Patent Office, determine the application date, and submit an early public statement and request substantive examination on the day of submitting the documents. This can speed up the review process. 3. The Patent Office will formally review the patent application documents for about 2-3 months, and enter the public preparation stage after the first trial is passed. 4. The patent office will disclose the invention application documents for about 6-8 months. 5. The Patent Office will conduct a substantive examination of the invention patent documents for one and a half to two years, during which the examiner will communicate with the applicant on the substantive content of the invention, namely novelty, creativity and practicality. In order to determine the proper scope of protection of the present invention), the communication can go back and forth several times until it is modified to the satisfaction of the examiner. 6. The Patent Office issues an authorization notice. 8. The applicant obtained the patent certificate in about 2-3 months. The whole process lasts about 2.5 to 3 years, and the specific time depends on the speed of the examiner's review and the informative degree of the applicant's disclosure.