Requirements
Patent Application for Invention/Utility Model (Convention Application)
1. Name and address of the applicant(s) and the inventor(s).
2. Information of Priority Right (if priority right is claimed).
3. Description, claims, abstract, drawings (if any).
4. Certified priority document (if priority right is claimed).
5. Assignment (if the applicant in China is different from that of the priority application).
6. Power of attorney.
Items 1-3 are mandatory at the time of filing, whereas items 4-6 can be filed later; however, the deadline for submitting item 4 will expire after three months from the Chinese filing date.
Patent Application for Design (Convention Application)
1. Name and address of the applicant(s) and the inventors(s).
2. Information of Priority Right (if priority right is claimed).
3. Drawings or three sets of photographs.
4. Certified priority document (if priority right is claimed).
5. Assignment (if the applicant in China is different from that of the priority application).
6. Power of attorney.
Items 1-3 are mandatory at the time of filing, whereas items 4-6 can be filed later; however, the deadline for submitting item 4 will expire after three months from the Chinese filing date.
Chinese National Phase of a PCT Application (Invention/Utility Model)
1. Name an address of the applicant(s) and the inventors(s).
2. Information of Priority Right (if priority right is claimed).
3. Published PCT application documents.
4. Amendments under Article 19, Article 34 and Article 41 of the PCT, if any (if such amendments shall be basis for examination in China).
Items 1-4 are mandatory at the time of filing, whereas item 5 can be filed later.