What should I do if a product cannot be patented because of "the rules and methods of intellectual activities"

since the rules and methods of intellectual activities cannot be patented, they do not become a kind of property right, and they are not legally transferable and can be implemented with compensation. However, judging from your description, as long as the manufacturers who are willing to buy your method appear, you voluntarily sign the agreement, which is completely in line with the elements of civil legal acts and is legal and effective, but you can't defend your rights exclusively, at least not according to the Patent Law.

However, if your "rules and methods of intellectual activity" are combined with certain technical characteristics to apply for a patent, you can achieve your goal. Please see the last paragraph of the following paragraph (excerpt from the Patent Examination Guide)

Intellectual activity refers to people's thinking movement, which originates from people's thinking, produces abstract results through reasoning, analysis and judgment, or must be indirectly acted through people's thinking movement as a medium. The rules and methods of intellectual activities are those that guide people to think, express, judge and remember. Because it does not use technical means or natural laws, nor does it solve technical problems and produce technical effects, it does not constitute a technical scheme. It does not conform to the provisions of the first paragraph of Article 2 of the Detailed Rules for the Implementation of the Patent Law, and it also belongs to the circumstances stipulated in Item (2) of the first paragraph of Article 25 of the Patent Law. Therefore, the rules and methods that guide people to carry out such activities cannot be patented.

The following principles should be followed when judging whether the subject of a patent application involving rules and methods of intellectual activities belongs to the patentable object:

(1) If a claim only involves rules and methods of intellectual activities, it should not be granted a patent right.

if a claim, except its subject name, is defined by all the rules and methods of intellectual activities, then the claim only relates to the rules and methods of intellectual activities in essence, and it should not be granted a patent right.

for example

the method of examining patent applications;

management methods and systems in terms of organization, production, commercial implementation and economy;

traffic rules, time schedule and competition rules;

methods of deduction, reasoning and operation;

book classification rules, dictionary arrangement methods, information retrieval methods, patent classification;

calendar arrangement rules and methods;

operating instructions for instruments and equipment;

Grammar of various languages and coding methods of Chinese characters;

computer language and calculation rules;

speed algorithm or formula;

mathematical theory and conversion method;

psychological test methods;

methods of teaching, teaching, training and taming animals;

rules and methods of various games and entertainments;

methods of statistics, accounting and bookkeeping;

music scores, recipes and chess scores;

methods of physical exercise;

methods of disease survey and population statistics;

information expression method;

the computer program itself.

(2) In addition to the situation described in (1) above, if a claim contains both the contents of rules and methods of intellectual activities and technical features in all the contents defining it, the claim as a whole is not a rule and method of intellectual activities, and the possibility of obtaining a patent right should not be ruled out according to Article 25 of the Patent Law.