The first one is more troublesome. For applicants who have never been exposed to patents, if they want to apply for patents, they need to write their own patents, fill in the information online and pay for it themselves. Patents are also divided into utility models, inventions and appearances.
The second way to apply for a patent is to find a patent agency. You don't need an electronic account. You just need to communicate your needs with the intermediary and provide the corresponding information and give the corresponding fees. Just wait for authorization later, but the cost will be higher.
1. How do individuals apply for patents?
Individuals applying for patents (for example, non-service inventors or business representatives) need to do the following:
1, subject. Ordinary individuals can apply for a patent in China by themselves or entrust a patent agency (for example, they can learn about production through gossip). If it is a special individual, a patent agency must be entrusted.
2. Object. Inventions include inventions, utility models and designs. It is necessary to determine the type before applying. Different types of applications have different conditions, fees, rights to be protected and economic benefits. Applicants should choose according to their own situation. The protection period of the invention is 20 years, and the protection period of the utility model and design is 10 years, counting from the date of application.
3. Procedures. Invention patents are subject to preliminary examination and substantive examination, and utility models and designs are authorized to be announced only after preliminary examination.
(1) A patent for invention shall submit a request, specification, abstract of specification and claim, and the specification shall be attached when necessary.
(2) The patent for utility model shall submit the request, the patent claim, the specification, the appended drawings of the specification, the abstract of the specification and the appended drawings of the abstract.
(3) A patent for design shall submit a request, a design picture or a photograph. The patent for utility model and design takes about 8- 12 months. After the formal examination and approval, the authorization notice will be issued and the license will be obtained. After paying the license fee, you can get the patent certificate in about 2-3 months. The specific time depends on the speed of the examiner's examination, the degree of detail of the applicant's public information and the provision of drawings.
Second, the individual patent application fee
When an individual applies for patent agency, the applicant needs to pay agency fees and official fees (which can be reduced by 85%); The second is the agency fee, the amount of which is determined by the applicant in consultation with the agency according to the difficulty and workload of the technical field to which the application belongs.