Of course, the first step is that we need to submit an application for patent acceptance. After receiving a patent, not every patent in the patent office meets the acceptance conditions. For them, there will be the first stage of acceptance review. After reviewing the patent clearly, the staff will judge whether the patent meets the acceptance conditions. After confirmation, an admission notice will be sent to the applicant. Only when we receive the acceptance notice will we really enter the procedural stage of patent application.
The next step is to enter the preliminary stage. Patent applications are not free. Before that, we still need to pay a certain application fee. At this stage, all personnel who have access to the patent need to be treated with confidentiality measures, and the contents of the review will also be carried out for the patent to see if there are any shortcomings, and it is necessary to examine and approve the content that meets the scope of patent protection.
After the strict examination of some columns, of course, it is the publication stage, and information such as invention patent applicants will be published. As long as you enter this publication stage, both the applicant and the patent will be temporarily protected, and you don't need to worry about your patent being stolen. After these stages are completed, the patent application is completed.