How much can the inventor of a patent get paid?

At present, China's Patent Law and the Detailed Rules for the Implementation of the Patent Law clearly stipulate the rewards and remuneration for service inventions. Article 16 of the Patent Law stipulates that the entity granted the patent right shall reward the inventor or designer of the service invention-creation; After the patent for invention-creation is implemented, the inventor or designer shall be given reasonable remuneration according to the scope of its popularization and application and the economic benefits obtained. The "economic benefits" mentioned here include not only the economic benefits obtained by the unit granted the patent right to implement the patent itself, but also the economic benefits obtained by allowing others to implement or transfer the patent right in a broad sense.

The detailed rules for the implementation of the patent law stipulate the agreed priority principle, minimum guarantee amount and remuneration ratio of the reward and remuneration system in the form of a special chapter. A unit that has been granted a patent right may agree with the inventor or designer or stipulate in its rules and regulations formulated according to law the way and amount of rewards and remuneration stipulated in Article 16 of the Patent Law. The rewards and remuneration given by enterprises and institutions to inventors or designers shall be handled in accordance with the provisions of the relevant state financial and accounting systems.

(1) In the rules and regulations formulated according to law, the entity that has been granted a patent right has not agreed with the inventor or designer on the way and amount of reward as stipulated in Article 16 of the Patent Law, and shall give the inventor or designer a bonus within 3 months from the date of announcement of the patent right. The bonus for an invention patent is at least 3,000 yuan; The minimum bonus for utility model patent or design patent shall not be less than 1000 yuan. Where an invention-creation is completed because the suggestion of the inventor or designer is adopted by the entity, the entity that has been granted the patent right shall give a bonus from the superior entity.

(2) If the unit granted a patent right has not agreed with the inventor or designer or the way and amount of remuneration stipulated in Article 16 of the Patent Law has not been agreed in the rules and regulations formulated according to law, within the validity period of the patent right, after the patent for invention-creation is implemented, not less than 2% or not less than 0.2% of the commercial profit from the patent for invention or utility model is extracted every year as remuneration to the inventor or designer, or it is paid to the inventor or designer at one time with reference to the above ratio.

(3) Where a unit that has been granted a patent right licenses other units or individuals to exploit its patent, it shall draw a proportion of not less than 65,438+00% from the collected royalties as remuneration and pay it to the inventor or designer.