Design patent application (patent mining and application)
- Estimated timeline
- 6–12 monthscounted from receipt of complete documents
- Key deliverable
- Documents delivered on completion
- Packages
- Patent mining and filing
What you provide
- Applicant and designer information
- Product design drafts, sketches, 3D models or photos of the physical product
- Views of the product from every angle
- Product use and target use scenarios
- Most distinctive design features of the product
- Materials on products in the same series or other versions
- Parts to be specifically protected or excluded from protection
- Whether a graphical user interface (GUI) is included
- Details of any prior disclosure, sale, exhibition or release
What you receive
- Documents delivered on completion
- 1. Analysis of features to protect in the design patent
- 2. Whole-design filing recommendations
- Partial or series design filing recommendations
- 3. Design patent application views
- 4. Brief description for the design patent
- 5. Patent application filing receipt
- 6. Acceptance notice
- 7. Official examination documents
- 8. Electronic patent certificate (once granted)
Service details
[Standard Application]
1. Review the product images, photos or design drawings provided by the client;
2. Determine whether the materials meet the requirements for a design application;
3. Verify the product name, use and design points;
4. Organize the front view, rear view, left and right views, top view, bottom view and perspective view;
5. Prepare a brief description of the design;
6. Submit the design patent application;
7. Follow up on acceptance and official examination milestones.
[Technology Mining and Application]
Service Content
1. Analyze the overall design, partial design and design points of the product;
2. Identify product parts with independent protection value;
3. Determine the application path for overall design, partial design or series design;
4. Analyze shapes, patterns, colors and their combinations;
5. Propose suggestions on view representation and scope of protection;
6. Provide combination or divisional application suggestions for products in the same series;
7. Assist in optimizing product names and brief descriptions;
8. Organize or guide the preparation of compliant application views;
9. Submit design patent applications and follow up on the process.
Prices follow the service listing. Where government approval or official review is involved, the outcome rests with the authorities and cannot be guaranteed.