According to three different types of patent preparation proposals:
Invention: refers to a new technical scheme proposed for a product, method or its improvement.
Utility model: refers to the new practical technical scheme put forward for the shape, structure or combination of products.
Appearance design: refers to the new design of the product's shape, pattern or their combination, as well as the combination of color, shape and pattern, which is aesthetic and suitable for industrial application.
Patent application documents:
Description, attached drawings of the description, abstract of the description, attached drawings of the abstract, claims, patent request for invention, patent request for design, patent request for utility model.
Submission of patent application documents:
If you apply for a patent or go through other formalities in China National Intellectual Property Administration, you can submit the application documents or other documents directly to the application acceptance window in China National Intellectual Property Administration or any patent agency in the Patent Office, or you can mail them to the patent agency or the Patent Office in China National Intellectual Property Administration. Please note the following when submitting documents:
(1) The application documents or documents for various formalities submitted to China National Intellectual Property Administration shall be in the format uniformly formulated by China National Intellectual Property Administration. The application documents shall be in duplicate, and the procedural documents may be in duplicate.
(2) A form can only be used for one patent application. For example, an invention patent request can only fill in one invention, and a statement of opinions can only state opinions on a patent application. It is not allowed to fill in several application statements or inventions in an opinion statement or an invention patent request.
(3) Applicants who submit all kinds of documents to China National Intellectual Property Administration should keep the manuscript, so as to ensure the consistency of document filling in the process of application approval, which can be used as a reference when replying to the review opinions.
(4) If the application documents are sent by post, a registered letter shall be used. If you can't send it by registered mail, you can use express mail instead of parcel. In addition to indicating the detailed address (including postal code) of China National Intellectual Property Administration or the patent agency, the registered letter should also indicate the words "application documents", "received by the acceptance office in China National Intellectual Property Administration" or "received by the patent agency in China National Intellectual Property Administration". The application documents should not be submitted by the courier company, and the application date should be based on the date when the China National Intellectual Property Administration courier company and the patent agency actually received the application documents. The registered letter shall only contain the application documents or other documents of the same application. When mailing, the applicant should ask the post office staff to clear the postmark date and properly keep the registered receipt stub.
(5) China National Intellectual Property Administration does not accept samples, samples or models when accepting patent applications. In the process of review, when the applicant submits a sample or model at the request of the examiner, if it is submitted in person at the China National Intellectual Property Administration window, it shall produce a notice of review opinions; The words "submit the model at the request of the inspector (name)" should be written on the email.
(6) When applying for a patent, a foreigner or foreign unit without a fixed residence or business office in China or a China resident or working abroad for a long time shall entrust the State Council to authorize a foreign-related patent agency designated by China National Intellectual Property Administration. The above applicants shall not directly mail or submit application documents to China National Intellectual Property Administration.
Where units or individuals from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan apply for patents, they shall also entrust foreign affairs respectively according to regulations. I hope I can help you adopt it.