The difference between discovery and invention is:
1. Different purposes
1. Discovery is to explain the world, and discovery has no clear purpose. Discovery is human exploration of the world, revelation, and understanding of oneself and the world.
2. Inventions change the world, and inventions have a clear purpose. It is the process and results of applying the laws of nature to solve unique problems in the technical field and proposing innovative plans and measures.
2. Different meanings
1. Discovery is to discover some unknown things based on the original foundation of natural society. It is a process of exploration, not exploration. Recreation in the process.
2. Invention is to create something that has never appeared before. An invention is a further improvement on the existing basis and is functionally different from the former.
3. Differences in intellectual property protection
1. In the field of intellectual property. The right to scientific discovery is not intellectual property. The reason is that scientific discovery is not creative. It is a human understanding of the objectively existing natural phenomena, natural laws, and the nature of things that have not yet been revealed. It is the scope of human understanding of the world and is the achievement of human understanding.
2. In the field of intellectual property, invention refers to one of the patent types of inventions protected by the Patent Law, and refers to new technical solutions proposed for products, methods or their improvements. Inventions in the field of patents have their prescribed protection objects or objects of protection.
2. Invention: Modern Guo Moruo's "My Childhood" Chapter 15: "At that time, we were more organized in reading ancient books. We read "Zuo Shi Chun Qiu" and "Donglai Bo Yi" at the same time. . Both articles are relatively easy to understand, and they can also invent each other."