Parallel applications for patent for invention and for utility model in China

23.09.2009

It has been confirmed that it is allowed for an application to try to file identical applications on the same day both for a patent for invention and for a patent for utility model respectively so as to obtain a protection in terms of utility model first as early as possible and to achieve a searched and examined protection in terms of patent for invention later on by abandoning the utility model patent upon the granted of the invention patent to avoid one invention from receiving the patent protection over 20 years.