Patent licensing refers to that the owner of patented technology or his authorized person permits others to exploit the patents owned by him in a certain way within a certain period of time and in a certain area, and collects royalties from others.
Patent transfer refers to the mode of operation in which technological achievements are transferred from one party to another. The transferred technologies include patented technologies and trademarks, as well as non-patented technologies, such as proprietary technologies, traditional biological varieties and management methods.
Difference:
Patent license only transfers the right to use the patented technology, and the transferor still owns the patent, while the transferee only has the right to use the patented technology, but does not own the patent ownership.
The party who obtains the patent right through the patent right transfer contract becomes a new legal patentee, and may also conclude a patent transfer contract, a patent licensing contract and a patent application right transfer contract with others.