Patenting a product usually means filing a utility patent for how it works and, separately, design protection for how it looks, since the two protect different things. This applies across product categories: a connected hardware device might combine utility claims on its electronics and software with design protection on its housing, a medical device is patented on its mechanism, a chemical, materials or food-tech product on its composition or formulation, and a software product on the underlying technical method it performs. Many consumer products carry both utility and design protection simultaneously.
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