The types of patents have different regulations in different countries. In China's patent law, there are: invention patent, utility model patent and design patent; In Hongkong patent law, there are: standard patent (equivalent to Chinese mainland's invention patent), short-term patent (equivalent to Chinese mainland's utility model patent) and design patent; In some developed countries, it is divided into invention patents and design patents.
patent of invention
The definition of invention in the second paragraph of Article 2 of China's Patent Law is: "Invention refers to a new technical scheme proposed for a product, method or its improvement."