Cannot apply for Zhili. Several situations in which patent rights cannot be granted:
(1) Inventions and creations that violate national laws, social ethics or harm public interests. Such as drug paraphernalia, etc.
(2) Inventions that violate scientific laws. For example, a perpetual motion machine does not comply with the law of conservation of energy and cannot be patented.
(3) Scientific discovery. For example, an astronomer discovered a new star through observation; Newton discovered the law of universal gravitation, etc. These are things that exist objectively in nature and cannot be granted patent rights.
(4) Rules and methods of intellectual activities. For example, a new way to play poker or a certain chess card, etc.
(5) Diagnosis and treatment methods of diseases. For example, an old Chinese medicine doctor can diagnose some difficult-to-diagnose diseases through a special pulse signal method and treat them with acupuncture, special acupoint massage therapy, etc. These cannot be patented, but medicines that can be mass-produced for diagnosing or treating diseases, Devices and their preparation methods can be patented.
(6) Animal and plant species. It can be protected through other laws and regulations other than the patent law. For example, in my country, there is the "Regulations on the Protection of New Plant Varieties" that is specifically used to protect new plant varieties.
(7) Nuclear transformation method and substances obtained by nuclear transformation method. It is related to the major interests of the country's national defense, economy, scientific research and public life, and should not be monopolized by units or private individuals, so it cannot be granted patent rights.