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Annual fee monitoring method

An annual fee, patented technology, applied in the field of patent annual fee monitoring, can solve problems such as low efficiency, no reminder, and increased cost

Inactive Publication Date: 2018-05-22
广州市知君信息科技有限公司
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[0002] Due to the particularity of the patent, after the patent is granted, an annual fee needs to be charged. The annual fee is different from year to year. If the patent annual fee is not paid on time, the patent will be invalidated and the profit will be lost.
At present, most patentees and agencies monitor the payment of patent annual fees after authorization using excel records and manual retrieval one by one, which is heavy workload and low efficiency
On the one hand, this kind of periodic repetitive work causes waste of human resources, on the other hand, manual monitoring and identification are prone to errors, and proofreading will increase additional costs
The existing patent management system also has many deficiencies in annual fee monitoring and reminders. For example, the process management system used by some agencies can only monitor the patents applied by the firm, and some special annual fee management applications require users to fill in a large number of data, which wastes the time and energy of users, and most of the patent annuity management systems and programs are only for reference and have no reminder function.

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[0043] The annual fee monitoring method of the present embodiment includes the following steps:

[0044] see figure 1 , the annual fee monitoring method includes the following steps:

[0045] (1) The user scans the QR code on the title page of the patent certificate with a device capable of scanning codes;

[0046] (2) Extract patent information from the page or link obtained after scanning the QR code, including the application number;

[0047] (3) The application number obtained in step (2) is queried from the database containing patent information to obtain the application number, invention name, applicant, patent status, authorization announcement date and fee reduction ratio, which is calculated when the patent status is valid The year of the annual fee payable, the amount of the annual fee and the expiry date of the corresponding payment period are included in the summary table. Assuming that the application date is A, B, year S, the authorization date is a certain da...

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[0054] The main technical solution of this embodiment is basically the same as that of Embodiment 1, and the features not explained in this embodiment are explained in Embodiment 1, and will not be repeated here. see figure 2 , in this embodiment, the page information extracted in step (2) includes the application number, the name of the invention, the applicant, the date of application, and the date of authorization announcement, and is included in the calculation of the annual fee payable year, payment amount, and expiration date of the payment period Summary table; the annual fee payable year is calculated according to the following formula: Assuming that the application date is A, month B, year S, the authorization date is a certain month and day in X year, this year is Y, and the annual fee payable year is N, N=Y -S+1, after querying the corresponding standard annual fee amount based on the calculated year, this embodiment directly calculates the year of the annual fee p...

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[0056] The main technical solution of this embodiment is basically the same as that of Embodiment 1, and the features not explained in this embodiment are explained in Embodiment 1, and will not be repeated here. join image 3 As shown, in this embodiment, the annual fee monitoring method includes the following steps:

[0057] (1) The user scans the QR code on the title page of the patent certificate with a device capable of scanning codes;

[0058] (2) Extract patent information from the page or link obtained after scanning the QR code, including the application number;

[0059] (3) Use the application number to query the database to obtain the patent name, applicant, date of application, amount of annual fee payable, annual fee payable year, and payment period expiration date information included in the summary table;

[0060] (4) Calculate the remaining days according to the expiry date of the payment period, and send a reminder to the user by email, SMS or instant messag...

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Abstract

The invention discloses an annual fee monitoring method. The method comprises the following steps of: (1) scanning a two-dimensional code on the title page of a patent certificate by a user by using equipment with a code scanning function; (2) extracting patent information from a page or link obtained through scanning the two-dimensional code; (3) querying patent information by using an application number, and displaying the patent information to the user; and (4) every year, in a certain time before the fee payment deadline of the year, reminding the user. According to the annual fee monitoring method, users only need to scan two-dimensional codes on title pages of certificates by using mobile phones or other devices with code scanning functions without other multifarious jobs, all the patent authorization announcement texts can be looked up and downloaded from the State Intellectual Property Office, and the self-applied patents, agented patents and other's patents can be automatically looked up and monitored through simple scanning.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the technical field of patent information monitoring and management, in particular to a method for monitoring patent annual fees. Background technique [0002] Due to the particularity of the patent, after the patent is granted, an annual fee needs to be charged, and the annual fee is different from year to year. If the patent annual fee is not paid on time, the patent will become invalid and the profit will be lost. At present, most patentees and agencies monitor the payment of patent annual fees after authorization using excel records and manual retrieval one by one, which is a heavy workload and low efficiency. On the one hand, this kind of periodic repetitive work causes waste of human resources. On the other hand, manual monitoring and identification are prone to errors, and proofreading will increase additional costs. The existing patent management system also has many deficiencies in annual fee monitoring and reminders....

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IPC IPC(8): G06F17/30G06Q10/10G06Q50/18
CPCG06Q10/109G06Q50/184G06F16/9554
Inventor 曾镜儒
Owner 广州市知君信息科技有限公司
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