It takes two years to approve a patent application. Is it patent protection or patent theft?

There is no possibility of stealing. The examination and approval procedures and cycles of inventions are different from those of utility models and designs. The invention should go through the stages of preliminary examination, early publicity, substantive examination and authorization announcement. Utility models and designs can only be authorized immediately after preliminary examination. Therefore, the approval period of inventions is generally 3-5 years, and the approval period of utility models and designs is generally half a year to 1 year. Because there is a record during this period, there can be no stealing!