1. The applicant and the inventor may or may not be the same person.
For example, if you apply for an invention patent to complete the company's task, the company legal person should be the applicant. If the patent is authorized, the company is the patentee. Patent authorization must be granted to the applicant.
2. Different units: patent inventors can only be individuals, not units, and enjoy the right to receive rewards and signatures, but they have no right to use, possess or dispose of patents alone, only to change and not to transfer them; Patent applicants or patentees can be individuals and units, with exclusive rights (exclusive exploitation of this patent), licensing rights (licensing others to exploit this patent) and transfer rights (patent application rights and patent rights can be transferred).
To sum up, we can understand that a patent application can only be called a patent application before it is authorized, and if it is finally authorized, it can be called a patent, and it enjoys the exclusive right to use the technical scope it requests to protect.
The patentee of the extended information is consistent with the patentee: the right to apply for a patent is the basis for producing a patent. After the patent application filed by the patentee is approved, the patentee becomes the patentee.
The applicant and the inventor may or may not be the same person. For example, if you apply for a patent for an invention made to complete the company's task, the company should be a legal person applicant. If the patent is authorized, the company is the patentee. Patent authorization must be granted to the applicant.
Patent inventors can only be individuals, not units, and enjoy the right to be rewarded and signed, but they have no right to use, possess or dispose of the patent alone, only to change it and not to transfer it; Patent applicants or patentees can be individuals and units, with exclusive rights (exclusive exploitation of this patent), licensing rights (licensing others to exploit this patent) and transfer rights (patent application rights and patent rights can be transferred).
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