Is it easy to apply for a food invention patent? I want to apply for a patent on instant noodles, and I hope to discuss it with relevant people.

It is very difficult to protect this situation with patents, because there are three types of patents: invention, utility model and appearance. The product itself does not have the possibility of applying for the latter two, and it is an invention to apply for it, but the innovation point is too low to support the novelty required by the invention patent, so it is difficult to protect it through the patent. We can consider other management methods, such as keeping the production process as secret as possible, joining specialty stores, and participating in some titles such as "Chinese famous snacks" through local food associations after taking shape, so as to make brands.

In fact, this road is to take the trademark brand route. You can't protect this snack itself, so you should make a brand in the shortest time, or once it is launched, such as Quanjude's roast duck, and there are many places like whose elbow and whose melon seeds. They also encountered the same problem as you now when they first operated. Patenting is actually a monopoly, so it is difficult to take the brand route. The first impression instilled in consumers is their own brand. After a long time, when people mention this kind of thing, they immediately think that your family's is authentic. Now people's tastes have reached the point of tracing back to the source, as small as a bunch of candied haws, which brand they want, because he thinks it is the root.

please make your own decision. I hope I can help you.