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Utility model patents only protect products, how to understand?

Utility model patents only protect products, how to understand?

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According to the provisions of the second paragraph of article third of the patent law, utility models only protect products.The products shall be manufactured by industrial methods, and entities with definite shape and structure and occupying a certain space.
It should be noted that in the claim, the shape and construction of the product may be limited by the name of the known method, but shall not include the steps and technological conditions of the method.
The utility model only protects the improved technical proposal for the shape and structure of the product.
All methods, as well as natural objects that are not artificially manufactured, do not belong to the object of the patent protection of utility models.

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