Shanghai Patent Workers Examination

Patent application is a professional, technical and legal work. The writing quality of patent application documents will affect whether the patent application can be authorized and whether the scope of protection after patent authorization is optimized. Except that foreign individuals, foreign enterprises or other foreign organizations that have no habitual residence or business office in China are required by law to entrust a foreign-related patent agency designated by China National Intellectual Property Administration to apply for a patent in China, the applicant may apply for a patent in China by himself or by entrusting a patent agency. Patent agencies entrusted by patent applicants usually send patent agents familiar with related majors to complete the entrusted patent application work. Patent agent is a social patent worker with a higher education background in science and engineering, who passed the national unified examination for patent agent qualification held in China National Intellectual Property Administration and obtained the qualification of patent agent in China. China National Intellectual Property Administration and Shanghai Intellectual Property Offices also organized professional training for enterprise patent workers. Writing patent application documents and handling patent application affairs is one of the main training contents. This kind of professional training is conducive to training patent professionals within enterprises, including those who are familiar with the writing of patent application documents. Generally speaking, large-scale enterprises or enterprises with many patent applications should train their own professionals who can write patent application documents, so that they can write simple general patent application documents for enterprises and handle patent application affairs themselves. However, if the patent application documents are complicated or involve technical fields unfamiliar to the patent personnel of the unit, a large patent agency with complete professionals and covering relevant technical fields shall be entrusted to act as an agent. Small and medium-sized enterprises or enterprises with a small number of patent applications should give priority to entrusting specialized patent agencies to apply for patents, so as to ensure the accuracy and efficiency of writing patent application documents and handling patent application affairs.