Patent author unit

First of all, copyright is a saying in Europe and America, and it is called copyright in China. The two meanings are roughly the same, and the patent right needs to be applied by the local China National Intellectual Property Administration. Secondly, consider whether the software you develop is a job work. According to Article 16 of the Copyright Law, "A work created by a citizen after completing the task of a legal person or other organization belongs to a job work. Except as provided in the second paragraph of this article, the copyright belongs to the author, but the legal person or other organization has the right to give priority to the use within its business scope. Within two years after the completion of the work, the author shall not permit a third person to use the work in the same way as the work used by the unit without the consent of the unit. In any of the following circumstances, the author shall enjoy the right of authorship, and other rights of copyright shall be enjoyed by legal persons or other organizations that can reward the author: (1) Works design, product design, maps, computer software, etc. It is mainly created by using the material and technical conditions of a legal person or other organization, and the legal person or other organization is responsible for it; (2) Holding a position in which legal persons or other organizations are entitled to copyright according to laws, administrative regulations or contracts, that is to say, it depends on whether you mainly use the material and technical conditions provided by your company (such as funds, equipment and materials provided by your company) to develop software, and the developed software shall be borne by them. If yes, it is a job, and you have the right to ask for a certain reward. Look at Article 13 of the Regulations on the Protection of Computer Software in China in more detail. "If the software developed by a natural person during his tenure as a legal person or other organization is under any of the following circumstances, the software copyright shall be enjoyed by the legal person or other organization, and the legal person or other organization may reward the natural person who developed the software: (1) Software developed according to the clear development objectives in his own work; (2) The software developed is the foreseeable or natural result of engaging in one's own work activities; (3) The legal person or other organization shall be responsible for the software developed mainly by using the material and technical conditions such as funds, special equipment and undisclosed special information of the legal person or other organization. " As for applying for a patent, if it belongs to a service work, according to the provisions of China's patent law, your company has the right to obtain the patent right for service invention-creation and apply to the Intellectual Property Office for a patent.