2. After entering "China Patent Inquiry System", click "Click Enter" under public inquiry, and then select "Agree with the above statement" to continue.
3. Enter the name of the patent, make a query, and then click the "Basic Information" of the patent to see whether the patent is authorized, withdrawn or expired. Generally, there are three situations: if there are two announcement numbers under the "invention announcement/authorization announcement", the general patent is authorized. Details of the patent can be found under "Trading Announcement". It should be noted that utility model patents can only be retrieved after authorized publication, and invention patents can only be retrieved after pre-trial publication.
Detailed steps of patent application
1. Prepare the application documents, including the request, specification, claim, attached drawings of specification and specification. A patent for design shall contain a request, a picture or photograph and a brief explanation. You can get the corresponding form at the service point of the National Patent Office. The format of the application documents should pay attention to the following matters:
(1) Fill in the form with black handwriting, which is clear and cannot be altered.
(2) Use simplified Chinese characters.
(3) Forms are used, and columns cannot be written.
(4) Practical standard format and A4 paper in duplicate.
(5) The attached drawings shall be made with black ink box drawing tools.
(6) Write the page numbers in sequence. You can download the writing model essay from official website.
2. Submission of materials. You can choose two ways to submit materials.
(1) Go directly to the lobby of the patent office or the local patent agency window.
(2) Payment by post, but only by EMS. Express delivery and surface mail are not allowed.
3. Accepting the acceptance notice issued by the State Patent Office means that the patent application formally enters the examination and approval procedure.
4. Pay the application fee, in addition to paying directly at the toll office of the Patent Office or the agency of the Patent Office, you can also pay the application fee by bank or post office remittance. Pay attention to write down the application number when paying, and ask the staff of the bank or post office to input the patent application number, name, address, zip code, etc. But you shouldn't send cash directly to the patent office. No one will accept it. Pay attention to the payment within 15 working days from the date of receiving the admission notice.
5, the patent office to review the application, the first is the preliminary examination, for patent applications other than inventions, as long as the preliminary examination is qualified, you can authorize the patent, and the unqualified amendments can be resubmitted. For invention patents, it is necessary to conduct a preliminary examination first, and then conduct a substantive examination after passing the examination. Only after substantive examination can a patent be obtained. Some substantive audits can be carried out immediately, while others can only be carried out after 18 days.
6. Obtain a patent certificate.
Legal basis:
patent law of the people's republic of china
Article 6 Inventions and creations made by performing the tasks of the unit or mainly using the material and technical conditions of the unit are service inventions and creations. The right to apply for a patent for a service invention-creation belongs to the unit. After the application is approved, the unit becomes the patentee. Units may dispose of the patent application right and patent right of their service inventions and creations according to law, and promote the implementation and application of related inventions and creations.
The right to apply for a patent for a non-service invention-creation belongs to the inventor or designer; After the application is approved, the inventor or designer shall be the patentee.
Where an invention-creation completed by making use of the material and technical conditions of the entity has a contract with the inventor or designer to stipulate the right to apply for a patent and the ownership of the patent, such agreement shall prevail.
Article 7 No unit or individual may suppress an inventor or designer's application for a patent for non-service invention-creation.