1. Individuals applying for professional titles or other purposes may consider applying for personal patents (personal use);
2. Enterprises may consider applying for company patents (for enterprise use) when applying for projects or preparing for financing listing.
Regarding the application fee, the official fee for the application is the same. In line with the conditions of fee reduction, individuals need to provide proof of income, and enterprises need to provide enterprise tax returns.
Regarding the validity of patent certificates, whether it is an individual application or an enterprise application, the certificates issued are the same and the validity period is the same, but the subjects are different, one is an individual and the other is an enterprise.
Legal basis: People's Republic of China (PRC) Patent Law.
Article 7 No unit or individual may suppress an inventor or designer's application for a patent for non-service invention-creation.
Article 8. Unless otherwise agreed, the right to apply for a patent belongs to an invention-creation completed in cooperation with two or more units or individuals, or an invention-creation entrusted by other units or individuals. After the application is approved, the applicant unit or individual shall be the patentee.
Article 9 Only one patent right can be granted for the same invention-creation. However, if the same applicant applies for a patent for utility model and a patent for invention at the same time on the same day, and the patent for utility model obtained earlier has not been terminated, and the applicant abandons the patent for utility model, the patent for invention may be granted.
Where two or more applicants apply for a patent for the same invention-creation, the patent right shall be granted to the first applicant.