Focus on Product Structure
We identify internal structures, component connections and assembly relationships to prepare your utility model application.
China Utility Model Patent Services
Protect product shapes, structures and their combinations in China. Starting with overseas application documents or new technical information, we assist with preliminary searches, Chinese documents, drawings, filing and examination.
Existing Documents or New Applications
We translate and adapt overseas application documents, or draft new Chinese documents from your technical information.Consistent Text and Drawings
We check that the claims, description and drawings consistently explain the product’s structural relationships.Support After Filing
Receive official notices, English explanations, examination responses and reminders for the next procedural deadlines.
What Structures May Qualify?
We review product shapes and structures to identify the technical features your application should describe.
Product Structures
Examples include housings, supports, fastening and transmission structures, together with the relationships between their components.
Component Connections
Examples include joining, locking, snap-fit and rotating structures, and how those connections achieve their intended functions.
Assembly Relationships
Examples include component positions and arrangements, mounting, support and structures that restrict movement.
Structural Improvements
Examples include specific structural changes that improve disassembly, fastening, sealing or adjustment.
Already Filed Overseas or Disclosed Your Product?
Share your earliest filing date and any sales, exhibitions, publications or supplier disclosures. We review the filing route and disclosure history before confirming the documents needed.
Check My Filing Route
How Does Filing Work?
We work through the filing route, document preparation, submission and subsequent procedures using your available materials.
Share Product and Filing Information
Provide the product’s purpose, key structural features, available drawings and relevant filing or disclosure dates.
Confirm the Route and Scope
We check the filing route and priority deadline, then confirm searches, drafting or translation, drawings and fees.
Search and Prepare Chinese Documents
We conduct the agreed preliminary search, draft or translate Chinese documents, and prepare and review the drawings.
Approve the Filing Documents
Review the proposed documents and confirm technical content, applicant and inventor details, and priority information before filing.
File and Pay Official Fees
We file the approved documents and pay official fees as instructed, providing filing copies, received official acknowledgements and payment records.
Follow Examination and Post-Grant Matters
We handle routine corrections and examination responses, communicating with examiners by telephone when needed. Post-grant annuity services are arranged separately.
Why Work with Our China Team?
Our China team coordinates documents, filing and official correspondence, with English explanations and records for your review.
Local Filing Support
We coordinate Chinese document preparation, submission and correspondence with the patent office.
Structure and Drawing Review
We check consistency between written descriptions, component relationships and the structures shown in drawings.
Practical English Explanations
We explain official notices, deadlines and proposed amendments that need your confirmation.
Clear Case Records
Receive filed documents, official notices and updates explaining the next steps.
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Design Protection for Your China Business
The role of a design patent can vary depending on how you launch, sell or manufacture your products in China.
Product Developers
Improving connections, fastening, assembly or internal structures? We identify the technical features and prepare an application using your materials.
Discuss My Structural Improvement
Overseas IP Firms
We follow your instructions on Chinese documents, drawings, filing and examination, providing records for review and client reporting.
Coordinate a China Filing
Businesses Manufacturing in China for Overseas Markets
Before sharing drawings, sampling or production, discuss China protection in light of product structures, existing applications and disclosures.
Discuss Protection for China Manufacturing
Ready to Protect Your Product Structure in China?
Tell us the key improvements, existing filings and planned timing. We will explain the materials needed, filing route and service scope.
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China Design Patent FAQs
A few practical things overseas applicants often want to know before filing.
They protect eligible technical solutions concerning product shapes, structures or their combinations, including connections and assembly. Pure methods or software code require a different protection assessment.
Not necessarily. We review existing documents and drawings before confirming translation and adaptation. If no application exists, we can draft from your technical information.
We need to review what was disclosed, when and how. Share the relevant records so we can assess filing requirements and next steps.
Eligible foreign invention or utility model filings generally allow a Chinese filing claiming priority within 12 months of the first filing. Requirements need case-specific checking.
Yes, where the requirements are met upon Chinese national phase entry. We check the original application, drawings and entry requirements before confirming the route.
We provide preliminary searches. Routine corrections, examination responses and necessary amendments for our non-PCT filings are included in the agreed professional fee. Official fees are separate; PCT responses are quoted separately.
Timing depends on the documents, official examination schedule and required corrections. We report actual case milestones and explain any action you need to take.
The statutory term is 10 years from filing, with annuities payable after grant. Monitoring, reminders and payment on instruction can be arranged separately.
