What are the application procedures for utility model patents?

Legal analysis: 1. Preparation of patent application documents. The utility model patent request, the utility model patent specification, the appended drawings of the specification, the utility model patent claim, the abstract and the appended drawings, etc.

2. Submit the application and pay the fee.

3. Preliminary review. The patent for utility model is only preliminarily examined, and there is no substantive examination as the application for a patent for invention. It mainly examines whether the application for a patent for utility model has the provisions in the patent law.

4. Authorization and registration. After the application for a patent for utility model has passed the preliminary examination, the examiner will issue a notice of patent acceptance. After receiving the notice of granting the patent right, the applicant needs to go through the relevant registration procedures and pay the relevant fees.

5. Issue certificates.

Legal basis: Unless otherwise agreed, the right to apply for a patent belongs to the entity or individual that has completed or jointly completed an invention-creation jointly completed by two or more entities or individuals in Article 8 of the Patent Law of People's Republic of China (PRC); After the application is approved, the applicant unit or individual shall be the patentee.