What are the types of medical patents?

Legal analysis: medical patent: 1, drug invention patent, you can apply for invention patent for new drugs, preparation methods of new drugs and new uses of drugs found. 2. Patents for utility models of drugs, changes in dosage forms, shapes and structures of drugs, inventions of pharmaceutical equipment, etc. You can apply for a patent for utility model. 3. Patent of drug design. New designs involving the appearance of drugs and packaging containers can apply for appearance patents.

Legal basis: Article 2 of the Patent Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) Invention-creation as mentioned in this Law refers to inventions, utility models and designs.

Invention refers to a new technical scheme proposed for a product, method or its improvement.

Utility model refers to a new practical technical scheme for the shape, structure or combination of products.

Appearance design refers to a new design that is aesthetically pleasing and suitable for industrial application, which is made on the shape, pattern or their combination of products and all or part of the combination of colors, shapes and patterns.