1. Fill in and write patent application documents

There are specific requirements for the filling and writing of patent application documents. The applicant may fill in or write it himself, or may entrust the patent agency to handle it for him. Although the principal patent agency is not mandatory, but considering the importance of carefully written patent application documents, and approval of the legal procedures of rigor, do not have much experience of the applicant, commissioned by the patent agency is worth promoting.

2, the admissibility of patent applications

After receiving the patent application from the patent office or the Patent Office of the patent office, the application for acceptance shall be determined, the application number shall be given, and the acceptance notice shall be given.

3, the application fee payment

The application fee and other expenses can be directly to the Patent Office patent agency charges or face to face, or through a bank or post office remittance. At present, the bank adopts electronic transfer, and the post office adopts electronic exchange mode. The payment by the bank or the post office to pay patent fees, shall specify the correct application number or patent number in order, using the name referred to pay the fees. The sender shall request the bank or post office staff input the payment information in the remittance postscript bar, through the post office remittance, also should be required to post office staff input complete address, including zip encoding, is an important role in the information program. Fees shall not be sent to the patent office.

4, the application fee paid time

Where a patent application document is submitted, the application fee shall be paid after receiving the notification of acceptance and the notification of the payment of the application fee. The application submitted by mail, the application fee shall be in receipt of the notification of acceptance and after the payment of the application fee notice to pay, because pay the application fee need to specify your application number accordingly, but pay the application fee to date not later than two months from the date of filing.

5, patent examination and approval procedures

According to the patent law, the examination and approval procedures for the application for patent for invention include five stages: acceptance, preliminary examination, publication, examination and authorization. The application for a patent for utility models or designs shall not be published or subject to examination in the examination and approval, but only in three stages: acceptance, preliminary examination and authorization.

6, the active revision and correction of the patent application documents

The active revision and correction of the patent application documents is also a procedure that the applicant may choose as needed. The utility model and design patents, only allowed in the application within two months from the date of the initiative changes; modifying of the patent application documents within three months of the application for a patent for invention is only allowed to request examination and put forward from the patent office issued patent application entered the substantive review notification of the.