韩国专利制度与中国专利制度类似，包括发明、实用新型和外观设计三种类型。韩国发明专利的保护期限是从授权登记之日开始到"从申请日起20年之日"为止。关于农药或医药，在一定条件下可以延长保护，最多延长5年。发明专利采用实质审查制度，自申请日起5年内向韩国政府请求实质审查，请求实审之日起25个月内审查。本文将介绍下韩国专利申请授权及年费缴纳程序。

一、申请类型：

发明、实用新型、(布局)外观设计。

二、授权程序图：

1、发明及实用新型(实用新型适用于2006年10月1日后的实用新型)

Procedures for Granting a Patent and Utility Model

(the Utility Model under Utility Model Act which was entered into on Oct 1, 2006)

需要注意的点如下：

(1).发明自申请日起5年内(实用新型自申请日起3年内)需要提出审查请求。逾期未提出，视为撤回。一旦提出请求，不可撤销。提出审查请求后，发明申请按照顺序进行审查。

A patent application will be taken up for examination only if a request for examination is made either by the applicant or by an interested party within 5 years (3 years in the caseof a utility model application) from the filing date of the application. If no request for examination is made within this five-year period (3 years in the case of a utility model application), the patent application is deemed to have been withdrawn.Once a request for examination has been duly filed, it cannot be withdrawn. A patent application is taken up for examination in the order of filing the request for examination thereof.

(2).申请日(优先权日)起18个月后公布

Applications that have not yet been published will be automatically laid-open in the official gazette called "Patent Laid-open Gazette" after 18 months from the filing date in the Republic of Korea or, if the right of priority is claimed from an earlier foreign filing, from the priority date.

2、外观设计授权程序图：分为实质性审查 和 形式审查(非实质性审查)

三、专利权有限期：

专利权自登记成立之日起开始，发明专利权自申请之日起20年届满(最多不超过25年)。实用新型对应的期限为10年。专利权的效力受属地原则的影响，即只有在取得权利的国家才有效。

The term of a patent right commences when the establishment of patent right is registered; it ends 20 years after the filing date of the patent application and when extended, can amount to a maximum of 25 years.The corresponding term for a utility model is 10 years.

The effect of a patent right is subject to the principle of territoriality; that is, it is valid only in the country where the right is obtained.

布局设计：设计权自第90条第(1)款登记之日起生效，直至申请日起第二十年。如果根据第35条登记的有关设计的设计权在设计权的期限届满时终止其基本设计。

A design right arises on the date in which the granting of the right is registered under Article 90 (1) and continues to exist until the 20th anniversary of the filing date of the relevant application of design registration application; provided that a design right to a related design registered under Article 35 expires at the end of the duration of the design right to its basic design.

四、授权：

当申请人收到授予专利权的通知书，需要在收到日起3个月内缴纳前三年的年费作为授权费。如逾期未缴纳，可以在稍后的6个月内缴纳双倍的费用已获权。因此，申请人如在收到授权通知日起9个月内未缴费，那么专利权就视为放弃。

五、后续年费：

可以每年缴纳(每年授权日对应当年的日期)亦可一次性缴纳多年及全部年费。

官费标准: (年费+权项费)

发明：

实用新型：

外观设计：

六、滞纳金：

专利年费的滞纳金从超过缴费期限日的1—6个月递增。

滞纳期从1-6月，滞纳金分别是官费的3%，6%，9%，12%，15%，18%。