After previous intense preparation, SIPO Patent Office Hefei Patent Receiving Agency will come into operation on December 17. By then, patent applicants in Anhui Province can handle affairs related to patent application and fee payment within the province.

The establishment of Hefei Patent Receiving Agency is an important measure of IP strategy implementation in Anhui Province, supplying a convenient and efficient channel for inventors in the province to apply patents. It can also help reduce the costs of patent application, shorten the application handling timeframe and ease the contradiction between the rapid growth of patent applications and inconvenient patent application, providing a sound service supporting platform for strengthening IP macro-management of Anhui Province and promoting scientific and technological innovation and economic construction throughout the province.

The local patent receiving agency is a patent business organ established by SIPO Patent Office in IP administrations of various provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, mainly doing the patent business work authorized or entrusted by SIPO Patent Office and other related service work. Its main businesses include: patent application documents acceptance, examination and approval of the applications of fee reduction and payment delay, patent fee collection, recording patent license contracts, issuing duplicates of patent registers and related business consultation.