Patent Prosecution
Patent prosecution is the base for obtaining a patent protection. In the prosecution, any formality or substantial issues will have deep influence to the furture patent protection. Therefore, a patent agency plays a very important role in this aspect.
Most of Intelightip's patent professionals have more than 5-years patent prosectuion experiences which gives them comprehensive knowledge on Patent Law and practices whether in the substantial aspect or in the formility aspect.
- Regarding the patent prosecution, Intelightip has the full capability to provide clients with the following services:
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- Drafting patent application documents for inventions, utility models and preparing industrial designs;
- Searching patent documents to identify relevant prior art;
- Filing patent applications with the State Intellectual Property Office and going through formalities;
- Filing patent applications in US, EPO, Japan, South Korea and other countries and going through formalities;
- Registrating standard patents, short-term patents and industrial designs in Hong Kong;
- Registrating utility patents, designs and utility model patents in Macao;
- Filing patent application for inventions, utility models and new designs in Taiwan district;
- Filing PCT international patent applications and going through formalities at the stage of both the international phase and the national phase of China;
- Filing integrated circuit layout design applications;
- Responding to officical notification or office actions and submitting responses with the SIPO;
- Handling Re-Examination procedure before the SIPO and the possible appeal procedure before the Court;
- Requesting restoration of rights, extension of maturity, alteration of bibliographic data; and
- Dealing with maintainence of patents, utility models and designs.