How to protect international patent applications in Hong Kong?
How to protect international patent applications in Hong Kong? In order to obtain the protection of Hong Kong standard patent, the applicant who submits an application for invention patent to China Patent Office should follow the relevant provisions of Hong Kong patent. The following small series introduces how to protect international patent applications in Hong Kong. How to protect international patent applications in Hong Kong? Where an applicant designates China in an international application and wishes to obtain patent protection in Hong Kong, he shall, in addition to going through the relevant formalities with the Chinese Patent Office, go through the formalities of requesting registration and granting a standard patent or requesting the granting of a short-term patent in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Patent Ordinance of Hong Kong. 2. After the international application for an invention patent in China has entered the China national phase, the applicant shall register the standard patent with the Hong Kong Intellectual Property Office in order to obtain the protection of the standard patent in Hong Kong, that is, within six months from the date when the Chinese Patent Office publishes the application in Chinese, or within six months from the date when the International Bureau publishes the application in Chinese, the applicant shall go through the filing formalities with the Hong Kong Intellectual Property Office; The application must be registered with the Intellectual Property Department of Hong Kong and granted the patent right within six months from the date of granting the patent right by the China Patent Office. The above procedures are applicable to applications whose publication date or issuance date is on or after1June 27, 1997. 3. An international applicant who requests to obtain a patent for utility model in China shall, in order to protect his international application from the infringement of short-term patents in Hong Kong, go through the formalities of granting short-term patents to the Intellectual Property Department of Hong Kong within 6 months from the date of entering the national phase in China or from the date of issuing the notice of national application number from the Chinese Patent Office. How to protect international patent applications in Hong Kong?