Intellectual Property · Patent applications

Invention patent application (patent mining and application)

Estimated timeline
18–24 monthscounted from receipt of complete documents
Key deliverable
Documents delivered on completion
Packages
Patent mining and filing

What you provide

  • Applicant and inventor information
  • Overview of the company's main business and products
  • Technical documentation for the product, system, process or method
  • R&D background, objectives and problems solved
  • Technical principles, processes, structure and implementation
  • Experimental results, test data or real-world applications
  • Different technical approaches and alternatives considered during R&D
  • Competing products, similar technologies or known patents
  • Details of any prior disclosure, sale, publication or display
  • Future product roadmap and patent portfolio needs

What you receive

  • Documents delivered on completion
  • 1. Technical discussion notes and summary of innovative features
  • 2. Patent mining findings
  • 3. Recommended core and peripheral technical features to protect
  • 4. Recommended patent filing strategy and scope of protection
  • 5. Finalized invention patent application documents
  • 6. Claims
  • Description
  • Abstract and drawings
  • 7. Patent application filing receipt
  • 8. Patent application acceptance notice
  • 9. Official procedural documents
  • 10. Electronic patent certificate (once granted)

Service details

[Standard Application]

1. Review the technical disclosure materials provided by the client;

2. Conduct basic technical communication with the client;

3. Carry out basic prior art searches and assess application feasibility;

4. Outline the technical background, technical problems, technical solutions and beneficial effects;

5. Prepare application documents such as the patent request, description, claims and abstract;

6. Provide one round of confirmation and reasonable amendments to the application documents;

7. File the national invention patent application;

8. Follow up on process milestones such as acceptance, fee payment, publication and entry into substantive examination.

[Technology Mining and Application]

1. Arrange multiple rounds of communication between patent experts and the enterprise's technical personnel;

2. Outline the complete technical chain of the product, process, system or method;

3. Conduct prior art searches and competitive technology analysis;

4. Proactively identify patentable technical innovation points;

5. Distinguish core innovation points, improvement innovation points and peripheral protection points;

6. Deconstruct, combine and design protection tiers for the technical solutions;

7. Formulate a patent protection strategy and application plan;

8. Prepare a claims system with tiered protection relationships;

9. Prepare complete invention patent application documents;

10. Provide no more than two rounds of reasonable revisions;

11. Submit the patent application and follow up on the acceptance, publication and substantive examination milestones.

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Invention patent application (patent mining and application) · Zhongwai Enterprise Service Center