According to Article 15 of the Patent Law, if there is an agreement on the exercise of the right to apply for a patent or the patent right, such agreement shall prevail. If there is no agreement, * * * someone can exploit the patent alone or license others to exploit it by ordinary license; Where another person is licensed to exploit the patent, the royalties collected shall be distributed among the owners.
Except in the circumstances specified in the preceding paragraph, the exercise of all the patent application rights or patent rights of * * * shall be subject to the consent of the owner of * * *.
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According to Article 13 of the Detailed Rules for the Implementation of the Patent Law, the term inventor or designer as mentioned in the Patent Law refers to a person who has made creative contributions to the substantive features of invention-creation. In the process of completing the invention-creation, a person who is only responsible for organizing the work, providing convenience for the utilization of material and technical conditions or engaging in other auxiliary work does not belong to the inventor or designer.
Any natural person who meets the above conditions can become an inventor. Therefore, there is no limit to the number of patent inventors.