Hong Kong Patent Service
Hotline: 86-755-82143422 Email: anitayao@citilinkia.com
Hong Kong has “standard” and “short-term” utility patents. An applicant can obtain a standard patent (with a term of up to 20 years) based upon a filing in the State Intellectual Property Office of the PRC, the European Patent Office, or the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office.
In each case, an applicant must request recordation of the application in Hong Kong within six months after the publication date of the application by the designated patent office. The application is not substantively examined in Hong Kong. Instead, the applicant simply files a request for registration in Hong Kong within six months after the patent grant in the designated patent office. The Hong Kong standard patent is therefore identical to the patent granted by the designated patent office.
The short-term patent (with a term of up to eight years) is similar to the standard patent in that there is no substantive examination of the application. One applies for a short-term patent by submitting a search report from an international search authority or one of the designated patent offices. If the applicant complies with the proper formalities, the short-term patent is granted within three months.
Besides utility patents, a design registration can be obtained by a process similar to that for industrial designs and design patents in other countries. An applicant files a request for a design registration directly in Hong Kong, either as a first filing or while claiming priority to a previously filed foreign application. The term of the design registration can last up to 25 years, so long as the proper renewal fees are paid every five years.
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