Patent application acceptance is the front-end procedure for the patent office to examine and approve patent documents, and the unqualified application ends here. So what mistakes can we pay attention to and avoid in advance for the smooth progress of patent application?
1, an application for a patent for invention cannot lack a request, specification or claim; An application for a patent for utility model cannot be short of a request, a specification, drawings of the specification or a claim; An application for a patent for design cannot be short of a request, a picture or a brief explanation.
2. If there are foreign languages in the application documents, a Chinese translation shall be attached;
3. The name of the applicant or the name and address of the legal person cannot be omitted in the request;
4. The printed documents are illegible, and the drawings cannot be altered or defaced;
5. A foreigner, foreign enterprise or other foreign organization who has no habitual residence or business office in Chinese mainland is the first applicant and has not entrusted a patent agency. (Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan with this article);
6. The patent application submitted shall be clear.
Extended data
A patent application is a request made by an inventor, designer or other subject who has the right to apply to the Patent Office for a patent right for invention or design. According to the provisions of China's patent law, an application for a patent shall be submitted to the Patent Office with an application, specification, patent claim, abstract, drawings and a request for priority. Among them, the appended drawings and priority claims are not essential to every application, but they are beneficial to patent applications.
A patent application shall be in written form, mainly including the following contents: the request, the name of the invention or design, the name and identity of the applicant, the name and identity of the agent and the signature.
China National Intellectual Property Administration-Patent Inquiry