A, the United States patent number format:
The United States consists of a serial number, a patent application WeChat official account or an authorization number, and the format for applying for WeChat official account is a 4-digit year serial number.
For example: 20060 100 198, 20050 158320. The format of the authorization number consists of 1-7 digits.
For example: 5575 155, 0 123456. No category code.
In addition, the validity period of American patents is the same as that of China, which is 20 years of invention and 10 years of design, but there is no patent for utility model in the United States.
Second, the characteristics of the United States patent number:
(1) The United States Patent and Trademark Office classifies various applications into several categories (for example, invention patent applications, design patent applications, temporary patent applications, etc. ), each application cycle number. The age span of the cycle is different, which is determined by the number of applications. Generally speaking, all kinds of patent application numbers are arranged continuously from 1 to 999999 in each cycle, and the cycle is repeated.
(2) In order to distinguish the application numbers in different periods, the serial number of the application number is used. This is very important for the database retrieval of American patent literature.
(3) The serial number of the application number is also used to indicate the application type:
0 1-28 is used for invention and plant patent application, and the two are mixed. For example, 08/ 10 1840 is the plant patent application number, and 08/1kloc-0/841is the invention patent application number. At this point, the invention patent application has entered the cycle of 1 1.
29 for design applications
60 for temporary applications
90 is a unilateral review request.
Ask both parties to re-examine it.
It should be noted that the application serial number of 1 ~ 6 is common in the title page of the US patent specification, such as Appl. Number: 1, application number: 600 000. In recent years, the United States Patent and Trademark Office began to publish the serial number of the application number in the title page of the patent specification, and stipulated that the patent application number consists of two serial numbers and six application serial numbers. If the number of digits is insufficient, zero should be filled, for example, the application number is 09/00006544.
Three, the characteristics of the contribution number of the American patent specification:
(1) Since 200 1, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has published two kinds of public specifications: an invention patent application and a plant patent application. The publication number consists of two parts: the four-digit publication year number and the seven-digit publication sequence number. If the number of digits is insufficient, make up with zero. It should be noted that the application for a patent for invention and the application for a patent for plants include re-published documents (A2, P4) and corrected documents (A9, P9), and all published documents are arranged in the order of serial number, such as US.
2006/0070 159 P 1，US 2006/0070 159 A 1 .
(2) Other patent documents are arranged according to their respective serial numbers, such as US 665432 1 B 1, US PP 12345 P2.
(3) Before 200 1, the patent documents published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office often used English abbreviations to indicate the types of documents, such as Des.456789, RE 12345. Since 200 1, the United States Patent and Trademark Office has fully adopted the patent document category identification code specified in WIPO standard ST. 16 "Recommended standard code for identifying different types of patent documents", but still retains the practice of using English abbreviations, abbreviations or initials to indicate the document category before the submission number, such as RE 12345 C 1.
Four, the United States patent document description project identification code
Description items of patent documents, referred to as description items. Descriptions from general books and documents are only used to describe patent documents, which are the characteristics of patent information disclosed on the title page of patent specification. The International Cooperation Committee for Information Retrieval between Patent Offices of Paris Union (ICIREPAT) has formulated a unified identification code for patent document description projects. As a result, the description of patent documents has reached the international unified standard.
The specific meaning is as follows:
10 document tag
(1 1) Document number (patent number)
(12) Literature
(13) Document category code based on WIPO standard ST. 16.
(15) patent modification information
(19) Countries or institutions that publish patent documents
20 application data
(2 1) application number
(22) Date of application
(23) Other dates (including the registration date of the exhibition, the submission date of the temporary manual and the registration date of the complete manual).
(24) Effective date of ownership
(25) the language of the original application at the time of publication
(26) Publishing language
30 priority data
(3 1) Priority application number
(32) Date of priority application
(33) Give priority to countries or organizations.
40 known dates of literature
(4 1) The date when the specification without examination and patent approval was publicly read or accepted for copying.
(42) The date when the specification of the patent that has been examined but not approved is provided to the public for reading or accepted for copying.
(43) The date when the patent specification was printed or published by a similar method without examination and approval.
(forty-four) the date of publication of the patent specification without examination and approval by printing or similar methods.
(forty-five) the date when the patent specification was printed or published by a similar method after examination and approval.
(46) the date of publication of the patent right by printing or similar methods.
(47) The date when the specification of the approved patent is available for public reading or reproduction.
(48) the date of publication of the revised patent document.
50 technical information
(5 1) International patent classification number, abbreviated as Int.Cln, and the number in the upper right corner of cl indicates the version of IPC, such as int. Cl3 represents the third version of IPC.
(52) domestic patent classification number
(53) International Decimal Classification Number
(54) Name of invention
(55) Keywords
(56) Published patent technical documents
(57) Abstracts and patent items
(58) the scope of the object to be searched during the examination.
Other legal reference items related to domestic patent documents.
(6 1) supplementary patent
(62) divisional application
(63) Continue to apply
(64) Re-announcement of patent
(65) The early published patent contribution number related to the application.
(66) The application date and application number of the earlier application replaced by the existing literature, that is, the latter application filed after the earlier application of the same invention was rejected.
(67) the application date and application number of the patent application, or the authorized patent number, and the existing utility model application or registered utility model (or similar industrial property rights, such as utility model certificate or utility model innovation) submitted on this basis.
(68) The basic patent number and/or patent document publication number of the supplementary protection certificate.
70 Patent Document Related Personnel Project
(7 1) Name of applicant (or company name)
(72) Name of inventor
(73) Name of transferee (or company name)
(74) Name of lawyer or agent
(75) The name of the inventor who is also the applicant.
(seventy-six) the names of the inventor, the applicant and the assignee.
80/90 related projects of international organizations and data related to supplementary protection certificate law.
(8 1) Designated country of patent cooperation treaty
(83) Relevant information preserved by microorganisms according to Budapest Treaty
(84) Contracting States designated under regional patent conventions.
(85) Date of entering the national phase according to Article 23 (1) or Article 40 (1) of the Patent Cooperation Treaty.
(86) Description items of the international application, such as the application number, publication language and application date.
(87) Number, language and date of publication of the international patent.
(88) Date of publication of European search report
(89) The country of origin and document number of the mutual recognition agreement for protection documents.
(9 1) The date of the international application filed according to PCT, which is invalid in one or several designated countries or selected countries because it has not entered the national or regional phase, or the confirmation date that it has not entered the national or regional phase.
(92) Date and serial number of drugs first allowed to be supplied to the market by the state (used to supplement the protection certificate)
(93) The serial number, implementation date and country of the first allowed supply to the local economic market (used to supplement the protection certificate).
(94) The validity period of the supplementary protection certificate and the calculation date of the expiration of the validity period.
(95) The name of the product that is protected by the basic patent and has applied for a supplementary protection certificate or has been granted a supplementary protection certificate.
(96) Regional application data, i.e. application date, application number and any language used when the application was originally submitted.
(97) Publication data of regional application (or authorized regional patent), namely publication date, publication number and optional language for publication of application (or patent).