Legal subjectivity:
If the applicant has filed a patent application for the invention or utility model for the first time in China within 12 months, or since the design was first filed in China, If a patent application is filed with the Patent Administration Department of the State Council on the same subject within six months of the date of filing the first patent application, the applicant may enjoy priority. Legal objectivity:
Article 29 of the "Patent Law of the People's Republic of China" The applicant shall, within twelve months from the date of first filing a patent application for an invention or utility model in a foreign country, Or if a patent application is filed for the same subject in China within six months from the date when the design was first filed in a foreign country, in accordance with the agreement signed by the foreign country with China or an international treaty to which China is a party, or Priority may be enjoyed in accordance with the principle of mutual recognition of priority. Within twelve months from the date of first filing a patent application for an invention or utility model in China, or within six months from the date of first filing a patent application for a design in China, the applicant shall submit the application to the Patent Administration Department of the State Council. Patent applications filed on the same subject matter can enjoy priority.