All locally incorporated companies, Hong Kong permanent residents or Hong Kong residents permitted to remain in Hong Kong for not less than 7 years which/who have never owned any patents in any countries or territories nor received funding under PAG before will be eligible.

For an individual applicant, the applicant must be the sole inventor or one of the joint inventors of the invention.

For a company applicant, the inventor(s) of the invention shall be (a) directly related party(ies) to the applicant company, e.g. owner, shareholder, director, or staff.  As PAG is for the first-time patent seekers only, funding support will not be provided if funding has been granted under PAG to the applicant company's related company(ies) [i.e. (1) company(ies) having a major shareholder (viz. those with 50% or more ownership) in common with the applicant company or (2) company(ies) without major shareholder(s) but having shareholders identical to those of the applicant company] before.

All applications for functional patents and inventions with technology elements and susceptible of industrial application are eligible.  Cosmetic designs will not be supported.