What is the approval process for confidential patent applications? Linyi Addy business patent application

The security examiner marks a patent application file that is determined to be confidential, establishes a security file location status card, processes it in a computer system, and manages it before a decision is made to declassify the patent application.

The preliminary examination and substantive examination of confidential patent applications shall be conducted by examiners designated by the Patent Office of the State Intellectual Property Office. The preliminary examination shall be conducted on the same basis as the general invention patent application, and the confidential patent application that passes the preliminary examination shall not be published, and where a substantial examination request has been made and a substantial examination fee has been paid, it shall directly enter the substantive examination procedure.

Substantive examination shall be conducted on the same basis as general invention patent applications. Where no reason for rejection is found after substantive examination, a notice of the grant of the patent right shall be made, and the confidential examiner shall notify the applicant to go through the formalities for the registration of the patent right.

The authorization announcement of a confidential patent application only publishes the patent classification number, the patent number, the patent filing date and the authorization announcement date.