The applicant is the patentee (natural person, industrial and mining enterprises, universities and institutions), and the inventor is not necessarily the patentee.
Where an enterprise applies for a patent, the applicant is an enterprise.
If someone applies for a patent, both the applicant and the inventor fill in the natural person, and the inventor and patentee embodied in the patent certificate are the same person.
On the patent certificate, the applicant's words will not be reflected. Only the patentee, that is, the patentee on the patent certificate, is the patent applicant.
Legal basis: Article 22 of the Patent Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), the invention and utility model for which a patent is applied shall be novel, creative and practical.
Novelty means that the invention or utility model does not belong to the prior art; No unit or individual filed an application for the same invention or utility model with the administrative department for patent in the State Council before the filing date, and it was recorded in the patent application documents published or announced after the filing date.
Creativity means that compared with the prior art, the invention has outstanding substantive features and remarkable progress, and the utility model has substantive features and progress.
Practicality means that the invention or utility model can be manufactured or used and can produce positive effects. The existing technology mentioned in this law refers to the technology known to the public at home and abroad before the date of application.