Intellectual Property · Patent applications

Invention patent application

Estimated timeline
18–24 monthscounted from receipt of complete documents
Key deliverable
Documents delivered on completion
Packages
2 options

What you provide

  • Applicant's business license or proof of identity
  • Inventors' names and identity details
  • Patent technical disclosure document
  • Technical background and problems with the prior art
  • Complete technical solution and implementation process
  • Product structure drawings, system flowcharts, schematics or experimental data
  • Technical innovations and expected technical effects
  • Statement on whether the product has been disclosed, sold, published or exhibited
  • Known similar products, papers or patents
  • Patent fee reduction filing details

What you receive

  • Documents delivered on completion
  • 1. Finalized invention patent application documents
  • 2. Invention patent request form
  • 3. Claims
  • 4. Description and abstract
  • 5. Drawings of the description and abstract drawing (where required)
  • 6. Patent application filing receipt
  • 7. Patent application acceptance notice
  • 8. Subsequent official procedural documents
  • 9. Notice of grant and 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 · Zhongwai Enterprise Service Center