Patent fee management system and method

Abstract

The present invention provides a patent fee management system and method. The patent fee management system comprises a data retrieval module, a fee payment monitoring module, a record updating module, a form generating module and a central control module; the data retrieval module is used for carrying out data fee management of a patent database according to user demands and displaying a data fee management result; the fee payment monitoring module is used for providing a list of fees to be paid in real time; the record updating module is used for updating payment records of paid patent cases; the form generating module is used for automatically generating a form according to the data fee management result and user format setting; and the central control module is used for receiving and transmitting information between the modules of the system. The present invention also provides the patent fee management method. According to the patent fee management system and method which are provided by the present invention, huge patent fee payment data can be managed and patent rights can be avoided being lost due to staff negligence and lack of fee payment.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the technical field of patent fee management, in particular to a patent fee management system and method thereof. Background technique [0002] As countries around the world pay more and more attention to intellectual property rights, many enterprises and manufacturers in our country will carefully evaluate and file patent applications when they are committed to research and development. The number of patents has also shown a significant increase trend, especially for some large enterprises, and the cumulative number of approved cases each year is nearly a thousand. For these thousands of invention data and follow-up maintenance operations, if the traditional manual Management is not only time-consuming and error-prone, so there is an urgent need for a systematic management method to avoid human error and improper management caused by the rapid increase of data. [0003] The traditional manual operation method is to use paper ...

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[0004] In order to solve the above-mentioned technical problems of time-consuming traditional manual management and operation and high error rate, the present invention provides a patent fee management system and method thereof that can effectively reduce the error rate and have high efficiency

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