中国于1985年3月19日加入《巴黎公约》,于1994年1月1日加入《专利合作条约(PCT)》1、通过《巴黎公约》申请外国专利巴黎公约的重要原则之一是“优先权原则”,它是申请人在该公约一成员国就一项发明创造第一次提出申请后,在一特定期限内(即优先权期限:外观设计为6个月,发明或实用新型为12个月)同一申请人就同一发明向其它成员国提出申请时,这些 China acceded to the Paris Convention on March 19, 1985 and joined the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) on January 1, 1994. One of the important principles of applying the Paris Convention for Foreign Patents through the Paris Convention is “Priority Principle of Rights ”, which is the applicant after a member state of the Convention on an invention made the first application, within a specified period of time (ie priority period: design for 6 months, invention or utility model 12 Months) when the same applicant applies to other member states for the same invention