There are three kinds of patents in China: invention patents, utility model patents and design patents.
There are two situations to apply for a patent in Suzhou Park, as follows:
1. To apply for a patent for invention or utility model, novelty, creativity and practicality are indispensable;
Novelty: refers to that before the filing date, no identical invention or utility model was published in domestic and foreign publications, used in China or known to the public in other ways, and no identical invention or utility model was applied to the Patent Office by others and recorded in the patent application documents published after the filing date.
Creativity: Compared with the prior art before the filing date, the invention has outstanding substantive features and remarkable progress, and the utility model has substantive features and progress.
Practicality: refers to the invention or utility model that can be manufactured or used and can produce positive effects.
2. Apply for a design patent. As long as you are novel, you can apply. The novelty referred to here should be different from or not similar to the design published in domestic and foreign publications before the filing date or publicly used at home and abroad.
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