Guidelines

GTIIT IP Committee Decision

Decision Clarification

Cost Responsibility

Approve

Clear commercial potential and strong anti-copy design

GT pay the application fee and ~5 years maintenance fee

  Conditional Approval (only for PCT patent)

No clear interested commercial partner but high necessity, such as a vertical fund’s KPI commitment

PCT application fee: GT covers 50%, PI covers 50%.

PCT country phase fee: will be decided again according to the 18 months’ commercialization progress. If progress is not good, country entering may not proceed.

PCT maintenance fee counting from entering PCT national phase: GT pay 3-5 years.

Reject

For patents that IP Committee not convinced and not officially approve

PI can use your own money to apply patent. However according to China Patent Law clause 6, GT still own your service invention. GT can pay 3-5 years maintenance fee.