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Intellectual property

Patent Insufficient Requirements

Cases not corresponding to invention

  • Natural law itself (Energy conservation law)
  • Anything not using natural law (Economic law, game rule, spiritual activity of human)
  • Item that already exists in the nature or simple discovery of law
  • Anything against nature law (perpetual motion machine)
  • Anything that cannot be repeated (Anything without concreteness or objectivity)
  • Anything without concrete means or that is impossible to solve task

Invention without industrial use

  • Invention without industrial use
    • Method of surgery, treatment or diagnosis on human (Medical devices are accepted)
    • Invention without use as job (Experimental, or academic use)
    • Method clearly impossible realistically