How to determine whether a patent application needs confidential examination?

According to Article 4 of the Patent Law, inventions and creations involving national security or vital interests need to apply for confidential patents in accordance with relevant regulations. Generally speaking, inventions involving national security mainly refer to inventions specially used for national defense or of great value to national defense; Inventions and creations involving major national interests refer to inventions and creations involving other major interests other than national security. The publicity of these inventions will affect the national defense ability, damage the political and economic interests of the country or weaken the economic and technological strength of the country. For dual-use inventions, applicants should not apply for secret patents if they want their inventions to be popularized and applied. An invention-creation applying for a secret patent does not include utility models and designs. If you have any questions, you can directly enter them in Huzhou Patent Network for online question and answer.