(1) Applications for patents for inventions and utility models enjoy both foreign and domestic priority, all within 12 months (within 12 months from the date when foreign countries/China first filed patent applications); (2) An application for a patent for design enjoys both foreign priority and domestic priority, both of which are 6 months (within 6 months from the date when China first filed a patent application), among which the domestic priority is the new test center in 221.