Does Guangdong Ocean University have to be a school to be exempted from patentees?

Absolutely. According to official website of Guangdong Ocean University, Guangdong Ocean University can exempt the patentee, and the applicant must be a fresh undergraduate with the recommendation exemption authorization, and obtain the exemption qualification recommended by the institution, occupying the exemption index recommended by the undergraduate school, and the recommendation procedures are complete and the materials provided are true. Guangdong Ocean University is a provincial key construction university jointly established by the Guangdong Provincial People's Government and the Ministry of Natural Resources. It is a comprehensive ocean university with multi-disciplinary coordinated development, an excellent college for undergraduate teaching level evaluation by the Ministry of Education, and a key discipline construction university of high-level universities in Guangdong Province.