file a patent/apply a patent

English to Chinese Other Law: Patents, Trademarks, Copyright 专利申请

file a patent和apply a patent有什么区别呢?

Proposed translations (Chinese)

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Mar 17, 2008 01:51: chica nueva changed "Language pair" from "Chinese to English" to "English to Chinese"

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Julia Zou

China

Native in Chinese

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意思一样

应该是file a patent application 和apply for a patent吧.

意思一样，都是"提出/提交专利申请"的意思.

Note from asker:

应该不是一样的意思. FILE好象是指按邮戳日期算,APPLY是收到专利申请日算吧?谁能解释?

Peer comment(s):

agree	ADELLEBJ : 专利申请中一般用 to file a patent application, to apply for似乎比较随意 0 min
	Thank you for your detailed explanation!
agree	AZ-Loc 24 mins
	Thank you!
agree	William He 2 hrs
	Thank you!
agree	Helen Li 2 hrs
	Thank you!

4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."