How to protect utility model patents?

Maintenance planning of utility model patent, utility model patent is also a kind of patent type, but compared with invention patent, the maintenance period of utility model patent in China is shorter, and the longest is only 10 year. So what is a feasible new patent maintenance plan? Zhengzhou Yu Fang Intellectual Property takes you to know:

Maintenance planning of practical new patents: Practical new patents only maintain products.

According to the second paragraph of Article 2 of the Detailed Rules for the Implementation of the Patent Law, utility model patents only protect products. Products should be manufactured by industrial methods, with definite shape and structure and occupying a certain space.

Practical new patent maintenance planning: product form

The shape of a product refers to the spatial shape that the product has and can be observed from the outside. The skill plan proposed for product shape can be a skill plan proposed for product three-dimensional shape. There is no product with definite shape.

(1) Biological or natural shapes cannot be used as the shape characteristics of products.

(2) The nondeterministic shapes obtained by placing and stacking cannot be used as the shape characteristics of products.

(3) One skill in the promised product is that there is no substance with definite shape.

(4) The shape of a product can be defined as its spatial shape in a certain situation. Such as ice cups and parachutes with novel shapes.

Practical New Patent Maintenance Plan: Product Structure

Product structure refers to the arrangement, organization and communication of various components of the product. The product structure can be either a mechanical structure or a circuit structure. Mechanical structure refers to the relative directional contact, connecting contact and necessary mechanical cooperation contact between the parts that make up the product; Circuit structure refers to the definite connection between the components that make up the product.

Practical new patent maintenance plan: skill plan

Skill planning is a collection of skill methods to deal with skill problems by using natural laws. Skill methods are usually represented by skill characteristics. In order to obtain the skill effect that conforms to the natural law, the scheme that does not choose the skill method to deal with the skill problem does not belong to the object of utility model patent maintenance.

Practical New Patent Maintenance Plan: Practical New Skills Plan

Paragraph 2 of Article 2 of the Detailed Rules for the Implementation of the Patent Law is a general definition of utility models that can be maintained by patents, rather than a detailed examination standard for judging novelty, creativity and practicality.