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Section 3.2.4, Chapter 3, Part II of the Patent Examination Guide stipulates: "Where the invention or utility model to be protected has technical features, such as the size, temperature, pressure and component content of parts, which are limited by numerical values or change continuously, and other technical features are the same as those in the comparison document, the novelty judgment shall meet the following requirements:

(1) The numerical value or numerical range disclosed in the comparison document falls within the numerical range of the technical features defined above, which will destroy the novelty of the claimed invention or utility model;

(2) The numerical range disclosed in the comparison document partially overlaps with the numerical range of the above technical features or has the same endpoint, which will destroy the novelty of the claimed invention or utility model. "