How to inquire about invention patents? Attachment: Application Process of Invention Patent

How to inquire about invention patents? After applying for patent protection, it is not always effective The period of validity of the invention is 20 years, the period of validity of the utility model patent is 10 year, and the period of validity of the design is 15 year, counting from the date of application. Inquiring whether the patent is valid is actually to confirm the legal status of the patent. By confirming the legal status, we can know whether the patent has taken effect or is in the period of validity.

I. Legal status of patents

Legal status refers to 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 patent right. Considering from time and space, the legal status of patent generally includes four aspects: region, time, ownership and scope of protection.

Among them, 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 enters the protection period, and how long is the remaining protection time. The ownership of patent right mainly refers to whether the patent right of a certain technology has been transferred, who is the current patentee and who is the actual owner 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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Second, the patent legal status retrieval

The retrieval of patent legal status refers to the retrieval of the current legal status of a patent or patent application. Its purpose is to know whether the patent application is authorized, whether the authorized patent is valid, whether the patentee has changed, and how other information related to the legal status of the patent is.

Patent application is not authorized, which means that the retrieved patent application has not been published on or before the retrieval date or has been published but has not been granted a patent right. This legal status is called that the patent application is not authorized.

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