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The term "industrial designs" covers industrial designs and models.
Offices which issue design patents should report their design patent information activities in this series of Annual Technical Reports.
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In October 2021, The State Council issued the 14th Five-Year National Plan for the Protection and Application of Intellectual Property, which clearly put forward the working requirements of strengthening the application of intelligent technology, improving examination efficiency and shortening the examination period. Based on the plan, in the area of industrial design informatization, CNIPA’s tasks during the "14th Five Years" mainly include: accelerating the improvement of infrastructure, supporting the reliable and flexible deployment of IT applications; comprehensively strengthening data resource guarantee, enabling the intelligent development of IT system, continuing optimizing system construction, supporting to carry out business intelligently and conveniently, improving the management of information-based services and make more use of the IT efficiency.
From 2022 to early 2023, CNIPA has completed IT system upgrading and officially put it online. The intelligent, informational and convenient level of examiners’ search and examination work are improved, and the public services are more convenient and efficient.
Annual report: https://english.cnipa.gov.cn/col/col1336/index.html
News page: https://english.cnipa.gov.cn/col/col1340/index.html
Statistics: https://english.cnipa.gov.cn/col/col3050/index.html
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The patent business system of CNIPA has been officially launched. Applicants can submit electronic design applications and obtain relevant help documents via the system at CNIPA official website. Applicants can obtain paper application form templates from CNIPA official website.
The general public can use China and Global Patent Examination information Inquiry system (https://cpquery.cponline.cnipa.gov.cn) to access to the design application data including basic information, examination information, fee information, reexamination & invalidation information, register information, family patent. etc. There are eight-language environments provided in the system.
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Legal status information (kind of information, coverage, medium, etc.)
Other sources
No publication information for design.
The types of design announcement include: Bibliographic items, brief description and designated view of designs, corrected bibliographic items, brief description and designated view, and all graphics or offprint copies of designs(including corrections), and transaction data.
Release frequency: twice a week in CNIPA official website: "China Patent Announcement - Patent Bulletin inquiry" .
CNIPA has the industrial design search system specially for the internal use of examiners, including the search database for industrial designs. The database covers the industrial design data of China since 1985 and the design data obtained from other countries, regions or organizations. The text is in xml format while drawings are in tif or jpeg format.
The information services provided to the public include: 1. Patent Search and Analysis System, which provides patent search and analysis services free of charge and covers patent data worldwide. System address https://pss-system.cponline.cnipa.gov.cn 2, Chinese and Global Patent Examination Information Inquery system, provide free patent search service. System address is https://cpquery.cponline.cnipa.gov.cn.
The legal status information available to the examiners comes from the data of China Patent Affairs Bulletin, which has been standardized and processed in xml format, covering the data of China Patent Affairs Bulletin since 1985. Examiners can search a specific case and inquire its legal status by application number or public number in the search system.
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Our internal examination system covers all types of business including invention, utility model, industrial design, PCT and Hague, and runs through the whole process of application, reception, examination, reexamination and invalidation. Supported by cloud computing hardware architecture, it organically combines cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence and other information technologies with examination business scenarios. By adopting an integrated platform, it provides users with unified account, unified entrance, unified platform and unified interface style. With the system assistance, examiners can focus better on the core work which reflects examination wisdom, through the deepening of semantic analysis, image recognition, machine translation and other artificial intelligence technology, by bringing in various kinds of intelligent auxiliary engines such as examination, writing, inspection, and with more intelligent supporting tools. It has carried out unified planning and governance for massive and dispersed multi-source heterogeneous data. Based on integrated databases, it provides more accurate decision support for business management through big data analysis.
CNIPA has the industrial design search system specially for the internal use of examiners, including the design search database. The database covers the industrial design data of China since 1985 and design data obtained from other countries, regions or organizations. The text is in xml format while drawings are in tif or jpeg format. Examiners can search by drawings, application number, classification number, etc.
Information on the following topics is desired:
Cooperation with universities, technology and innovation support centers, etc.
The applicant can access the information of his/her own applications in different business stages through the CNIPA patent business system, and can also access the information of others' applications through Patent Search and Analysis System and the China and Global Patent Examination Information Inquiry system.
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Assistance to developing countries
Other activities
The data and document interaction of Hague business between CNIPA and WIPO is carried out in the way of machine-to-machine.
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