Refers to the products produced by using the technical scheme provided by the inventor to solve the invention ideas such as electric lights, telephones, machines, equipment, instruments and meters, and new alloy substances. Substances that are in a natural state without human processing are not product inventions, such as natural gems and minerals. After a product invention is patented, it is called a product patent, which only protects the product itself and does not protect the manufacturing method of the product.
Method patent of invention patent;
Refers to the process of manufacturing products or solving technical problems to create methods and technologies. The "methods" here can be chemical methods, mechanical methods, communication methods and methods described in the order specified by the process. Such as papermaking, steelmaking, printing and communication. A method invention is called a method patent after it is patented. According to the provisions of China's patent law, the protection scope of method patent extends to the products directly obtained by this method that are imported or used or sold in China. This means that without the permission of the patentee of the invention method, no unit or individual may use the patented method to sell the products directly obtained according to the patented method.