How to fill in the request for substantive examination

To apply for substantive examination, you need to fill in the relevant application form. This is the first and important step. But for inventors who are applying for the first time, they don’t know how to fill out the request for substantive examination, and they are afraid that if they fill it out incorrectly, their application will not be approved. The editor of Legal Savior Network has compiled the following content to answer your questions. I hope it will be helpful to you.

How to fill in the request for substantive examination

(1) Patent application, application number, filing date, invention Name, applicant (representative)

(2) The request content is based on the provisions of Article 35 of the Patent Law, requesting substantive examination of the above-mentioned patent

(3) List of attachments, reference materials related to the invention before the filing date, information retrieved by the foreign country for the application, and information on the review results of the foreign country for the application

(4) Note, the Patent Office needs to copy the comparative documents listed in the examination notice

(5) Application document replacement page

(6) Year, month and day of signature of applicant or agency

(7) Year, month and day of the Patent Office’s handling opinion

Notes on filling in the form

1. This form should be filled out carefully in Chinese (the text should be typed or printed, and the handwriting should be black).

2. Column (1) of this table The filled-in content should be consistent with the content in the patent request. If the application has gone through the procedures for changing the recorded items, it should be filled in according to the content after the change is approved by the Patent Office.

3. Column (3) of this table The square □ is for the person filling out the form to choose. If there is any information mentioned after the square, a "√" mark should be marked in the square.

4. The applicant cannot submit the third patent application If the information specified in Paragraph 2 of Article 16 is required, it shall be declared in column (4) of this form and the reasons shall be stated, and it shall be submitted after the information is obtained.

5. In column (3) of this table , the reference materials related to the invention before the filing date should be patent documents, journals, magazines and other literature materials that can explain the background technology of the invention. patentDocuments should indicate the country, classification number, application date, application publication date, application number or patent number; non-patent literature should indicate the country, name, cited article title, author, publisher, publication date, volume, Number of pages.

6. Column (6) of this table, If a patent agency is entrusted, the official seal of the patent agency shall be affixed, or the signature or name seal of the agent shall be affixed. If a patent agency has not been entrusted, the applicant should be signed or stamped with his name and seal if he is an individual; if the applicant is an organization, the official seal of the organization should be affixed, and there should be signatures and seals of multiple applicant representatives.

7. Things that should be stipulated in the Implementing Rules of the Patent Law Pay the examination fee within the deadline.

8. The patent office needs to copy the examination opinion notice For comparative documents listed in , a "√" mark should be placed in the box in column (4). Pay a copying fee of 10 yuan, which will be mailed to the General Office of the First Examination Department of the China Patent Office.

How to fill in the request for substantive examination? This article is for everyone It introduces how to fill in the application form correctly. I hope you can fill in the application form carefully according to the content of this article, so as to avoid filling in the relevant content incorrectly, which is detrimental to the substantive examination application for invention patents. If your situation is more complicated, Legal Savior Network welcomes you to seek legal consultation.