What are Patent Figures?

A patent number is a number given when a patent right is granted, and is a kind of document number. The document number is a serial number prepared by each industrial property office when it publishes patent documents (including public publication and only for reproduction)

Patent No

A patent number is a number given when a patent right is granted, and is a kind of document number. The document number is a serial number prepared by each industrial property office when it publishes patent documents (including public publication and only for viewing and reproduction).

Chinese name

Patent No

Foreign name

Patent number

Make up

ZL (first letter of patent) + application number

in accordance with

Application number: in

feature

1.Exclusiveness means very simple, that is, within a certain period of time (period of patent right) and area (legal jurisdiction), no unit or individual may implement its patent without permission of the patentee

2. Regional, regional refers to the patent right is a kind of regionally restricted rights, it is only valid within the jurisdiction of the law.

3. Temporality. Temporality means that patents are valid only within the time limit prescribed by law. After the term of validity of the patent right has expired, the patent right enjoyed by the patentee is automatically lost and cannot normally be renewed. ^[1]

China's patent numbers are basically divided into the following situations:

For patent numbers before 2004, it is divided into four segments: For example: 97101765.4 The first segment is the first two digits, indicating the year the patent application was filed. Composition, indicating the type of patent application, "1" for invention (if "2" means utility model, "3" for design, "8" for PCT invention patent application, "9" for PCT utility model patent application); The third paragraph consists of the fourth to eighth digits, indicating the serial number of the application in that year. For example, 01765 represents the 1765 applications in the year; the fourth paragraph consists of the ninth digit or symbol, which is a computer generated check Bit, which is the remainder after multiplying the first 8 digits by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and adding their products together, and then dividing by 11. When the remainder is equal to or greater than 10, it is represented by X. For example: Patent No. ZL95115608.X, the calculation method for calculating the last digit is 9 × 2 + 5 × 3 + 1 × 4 + 1 × 5 + 5 × 6 + 6 × 7 + 0 × 8 + 8 × 9 = 186 Divide 186 by 11, and the remainder is 10, which is represented by X. This can identify the authenticity of the patent and estimate the value content of the patent. ^[1]

According to the Patent Law of the People's Republic of China

Article 22 The inventions and utility models for which patent rights are granted shall be novel, creative and practical.

Novelty means that the invention or utility model does not belong to the prior art; nor has any unit or individual filed an application for the same invention or utility model with the patent administration department of the State Council before the filing date, and records that it was announced after the filing date. Patent application documents or published patent documents.

Inventiveness means that compared with the prior art, the invention has outstanding substantive features and significant progress, and the utility model has substantive features and progress.

Practicality means that the invention or utility model can be manufactured or used and can produce positive effects.

The prior art referred to in this law refers to the technology known to the public at home and abroad before the filing date.

Article 23 The design granted with a patent right shall not belong to the existing design; no unit or individual has applied for the same design to the patent administration department of the State Council before the filing date, and shall record the announcement after the filing date. Patent document.

Compared with the existing design or the combination of existing design features, the patented design shall have obvious differences.

The design granted with the patent right shall not conflict with the legal rights already obtained by others before the filing date.

The existing design referred to in this Law refers to the design known to the public at home and abroad before the filing date.

Article 24 Within six months before the filing date of an application for a patent, if there is one of the following circumstances, the novelty shall not be lost:

(1) exhibited for the first time at an international exhibition hosted or recognized by the Chinese government;

(2) first published at a prescribed academic conference or technical conference;

(3) Others have leaked their content without the consent of the applicant.

Article 25 No patent right shall be granted for the following items:

(1) scientific discoveries;

(2) rules and methods of intellectual activities;

(3) methods of diagnosis and treatment of diseases;

(4) varieties of animals and plants;

(5) Substances obtained by nuclear transformation methods;

(6) Designs that are mainly used for logos on the patterns, colors, or a combination of the two printed products.

For the production methods of the products listed in item (4) of the preceding paragraph, patent rights may be granted in accordance with the provisions of this Law. ^[1]