How to inquire about invention patents? After applying for patent protection, it is not always effective. The term of validity of the invention is 2 years, the term of validity of the utility model patent is 1 years, and the term of validity of the design is 15 years, counting from the date of application. Inquiring whether a patent is valid is actually to confirm the legal status of the patent. By confirming the legal status, you can know whether the patent has taken effect or is in the period of validity.
I. legal status of patent
legal status refers to the status of the right type, right maintenance, right scope and right attribution of a patent application or authorized patent in a certain country at a certain point in time, which will directly affect the existence and scope of the patent right. Considering from time and space, the legal status of patent generally includes four aspects: region, time, ownership and protection scope.
the regionality mainly refers to: in which countries a patented technology has been patented, in which countries it has not been patented, and in which countries it may be protected in the future. In terms of time, it refers to: how long is the protection period of a technology in this country, whether it has entered the protection period, and how long is the remaining protection time. The ownership of patent rights mainly refers to: whether the patent rights of a certain technology have been transferred, who are the current patentees and who are the actual owners of the patent. The scope of patent protection mainly refers to whether there are follow-up procedures after patent authorization and whether the scope of patent protection has changed.
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II. Patent legal status retrieval
Patent legal status retrieval refers to the retrieval of the current legal status of a patent or patent application, and its purpose is to know whether the patent application is authorized, whether the authorized patent is valid, whether the patentee has changed, and what other information is related to the patent legal status.
The patent application has not been authorized, which means that the searched patent application has not been published or has been published but the patent right has not been granted on or before the retrieval date. This legal status is called that the patent application has not been authorized.
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