First of all, different patent agencies have different services and different fees!

Secondly, it mainly depends on the purpose of your application for this invention patent. For example, our patent service divides the patent application agency service into two types according to the different purposes of customers applying for patents:

1, certificate category: refers to the enterprise's purpose of obtaining the authorization certificate, and it will not pay too much attention to the scope of patent protection. It is generally applied to the needs of customers in tax planning, pricing shares, pledged loans, brand promotion, government projects, etc.

2. Protection category: refers to the purpose of obtaining patents for enterprises to form good protection for products and pay more attention to the scope of patent protection, which is generally applied to the needs of customers in litigation rights protection, business model shaping, attracting financing, patent transfer, patent licensing, business transformation and so on.

The process of patent application:

1, determine whether the content of the invention belongs to the patentable content;

2, determine the content of the invention can apply for which kind of patent type (invention, utility model, design).

Second, sign an agency agreement

The purpose of signing the agency agreement at this time is to clarify the rights and obligations between the applicant and the patent agency, mainly to bind the patent agent to keep the contents of the applicant's inventions confidential.

Third, technical disclosure

1, the applicant provides the patent agent with background information about invention or creation or entrusts to retrieve relevant contents;

2. The applicant introduces the contents of the invention and creation in detail to help the patent agent fully understand the contents of the invention and creation.

Fourth, determine the application plan

1。 On the basis of understanding the invention and creation, the agent will make a preliminary judgment on the prospect of the patent application, and advise the applicant to withdraw the application with little possibility of patent authorization. At this time, the agency will charge a small amount of consulting fees, and most of the application agency fees will be returned to the applicant.

2.。 If there is a bright prospect for patent authorization, the patent agent will put forward a clear application scheme, the scope and content of protection, and begin to prepare for the formal application with the consent of the applicant.

V. Preparation of application documents

1, writing patent application documents;

2. Make application documents;

3. Submit a patent application and obtain a patent application number.

VI. Review

The Chinese Patent Office will examine the patent application documents, and the patent agent will make patent corrections, opinions, defenses and changes during the examination. If necessary, the applicant should cooperate with the patent agent to complete the above work.

VII. Review conclusion

The Chinese Patent Office will authorize or reject the conclusion of the examination according to the examination. Generally, the time of this process is about 6 months for design, about 2 months for utility model 10- 12 months, and 2-4 years for invention patent.