After the application for a patent for design is submitted, the preliminary examination can be completed in about 3-4 months. After passing the preliminary examination, a notice of registration shall be issued immediately. 65,438+0 After the applicant pays the annual printing fee (annual fee, patent registration fee, announcement printing fee and stamp duty) of 295 yuan (one applicant has passed the filing procedures), the patent is authorized and an authorization announcement is issued.
After the authorization announcement is issued, the patent certificate will be sent within 10 working days.
The application time of appearance patent also depends on whether the patent has to go through the examination opinions and defense stage.
If the examiner has any questions about this patent, such as unqualified graphic proportion and unqualified sorting method, etc., the nth notice of examination opinions will be issued.
Notice of the nth review opinion gives the applicant two months to reply.
The first reply was unqualified, and there was a second reply, which was also a two-month reply time.
After receiving the reply, if the examiner immediately reviews and responds quickly, it will take at least 4 months for two reviews. Therefore, at this time, the application market for design patents has been extended to at least 10 months.