Do you need inventions to apply for invention patents? What if there is only one idea?

According to China's patent law, implementation rules and other relevant laws and regulations, the applicant only needs to provide paper drawings, not physical objects. Since you only have ideas, I would like to remind you of the three requirements of patent application: according to Article 22 of the Patent Law, inventions and utility models that have been granted patent rights should be novel, creative and practical.

Novelty means that before the filing date, no identical invention or utility model was published in publications at home and abroad, used in China or known to the public in other ways, and no identical invention or utility model was applied to the patent administration department in the State Council by others and recorded in the patent application documents published after the filing date.

Creativity means that compared with the prior art before the filing date, the invention has outstanding substantive features and remarkable progress, and the utility model has substantive features and progress.

Practicality means that the invention or utility model can be manufactured or used and can produce positive effects. Turning an idea into a realizable product or technology and fully protecting it through patent application is a seemingly simple and extremely complicated process, because a good patent technology needs a fairly high-level patent application document writer to be fully protected. If your idea is really good, I suggest you carefully choose a senior patent agent to help you write the application documents. It would be a pity not to let a good technology be destroyed.