1. It usually takes 20 days to one month to provide a disclosure letter and entrust an agency to write the application documents (if there is no entrusted agency, this step can be omitted).
2. Submit the application documents, get the notification of acceptance from the Patent Office, determine the application date, and submit an early public statement and request substantive examination on the day of submitting the documents, which can speed up the examination process.
3. The Patent Office will formally review the patent application documents for about 2-3 months, and enter the public preparation stage after the first trial is passed.
It takes about 6-8 months for the patent office to publish the invention application documents.
5. The time for the Patent Office to substantially examine the invention patent documents is about one and a half to two years, during which the examiner communicates with the applicant on the substantive content of the invention, namely novelty, creativity and practicality (entrusting the agency to communicate with the agency to determine the appropriate protection scope of the invention), and this communication may be repeated many times until it is revised to the satisfaction of the examiner.
6, the patent office issued a notice of authorization
7. The applicant shall go through the formalities for obtaining the patent certificate.
8. It takes about 2-3 months to get the patent certificate.
The whole process lasts about two and a half to three years, and the specific time depends on the speed of the examiner's review and the informative degree of the applicant's disclosure.
Utility model and design:
1. It usually takes 10 working days to provide disclosure and entrust an agency to write application documents.
2. Submit the application documents, obtain the notification of acceptance from the Patent Office, and determine the application date.
3. It takes about 3-6 months for the Patent Office to formally review the patent application documents.
4, the patent office issued a notice of authorization
The applicant shall go through the formalities of obtaining the patent certificate.
6. It takes about 2-3 months to get the patent certificate.
The whole process lasts about 1 year, and the specific time depends on the speed of the examiner's review and the informative degree of the applicant's disclosure materials.
The utility model patent system makes the quality of patents mixed, and a large number of "non-patents" are mixed in the ranks of "patents", which makes the public have some doubts about the patents themselves. It is foreseeable that after the number of patent applications reaches a certain number, there will definitely be reforms, and all of them will go through substantive examination, which is certain. From the patent applicant's point of view, sometimes it may be cost-effective to spend less money in exchange for a possibility in a short time. Nowadays, there are more enterprises applying for patents than individuals, and the public also agrees with patents. Therefore, instead of investing huge advertising fees, it is better to invest less money to apply for patents. At least it can play a considerable advertising effect.