This article is part of 2015 Supreme People's Court judicial research major subject the Research of Major Issues in the 4th Amendment of Patent Law undertaken by Beijing Municipal Intellectual
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Article 1376 requires that the claims of a utility model application relate to a single utility model viz., it will no longer be possible to file a group of utility models in a single application.