According to the provisions of the patent law, what is a service invention?

Inventions and creations made by inventors or designers who have completed their own tasks or mainly made use of their own material and technical conditions.

According to Article 6 of the Patent Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), a service invention-creation refers to an invention-creation made by an inventor or designer who performs the task of his own unit or mainly uses the material and technical conditions of his own unit.

Including inventions in their own work; Inventions and creations completed by performing tasks other than their own jobs delivered by their own units; Inventions and creations made within 1 year after resignation, retirement or job transfer, which are related to the work undertaken by myself in the original unit or the tasks assigned by the original unit.

Extended data:

Identification of service invention and creation:

1. Using the company's material and technical conditions means using all or most of the company's funds, equipment, spare parts, raw materials and technical data that are not disclosed to the public in the process of invention and creation. If this utilization is the essential and decisive condition of invention and creation, then invention and creation should belong to service invention and creation.

2. This unit requires the inventor to be a subordinate unit, a seconding unit and an employing unit. If the material and technical conditions used by the subject in the process of completing the invention and creation have nothing to do with the unit, it is not considered as a service invention and creation.

3. The scope of work of the inventor or designer belongs to the scope of daily work responsibilities, which neither refers to the business scope of the unit nor refers to the personal learning scope. Inventions in daily work belong to job inventions.

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