The novelty of invention means that before the filing date, no identical invention or utility model was published in domestic and foreign publications, used in China or known to the public in other ways, and no identical invention or utility model was applied to the Patent Office by others and recorded in the patent application documents published after the filing date. The novelty requirement means that the invention must be original and unprecedented.
Originality, also known as originality or originality, only means that the work is not plagiarized and different, even if it is similar to an existing work through coupling. For example, two similar photos produced by two people shooting the same scene at the same time and place, because they are not the products of mutual remake, can both become works referred to in the copyright law and be protected separately.