1, contribution
Patent investment refers to a business behavior of combining patented technological achievements with other forms of property as capital and establishing enterprises according to legal procedures. Patents are intangible assets with high added value. In order to encourage scientific and technological innovation and promote scientific and technological development, the Company Law, the Partnership Enterprise Law and other laws and regulations clearly affirmed the contribution of intellectual property rights, which provided a legal basis for patent contribution.
2. Patent financing
Patent financing is the financing of patent funds, which is the general name of pledge loan, patent investment, technology shareholding and financial leasing based on patents. Pledged loan refers to the behavior of enterprises or individuals applying for loan financing from commercial banks with the property rights in their legally owned patents as pledge after evaluation.
3. Patent licensing
Patent exploitation license refers to that the owner of patented technology or his authorized person permits others to exploit the patents owned by him in a certain way within a certain period of time and in a certain area, and collects royalties from others. Patent licensing only transfers the right to use the patented technology, not the ownership of the patent. After the license, the transferor still has the ownership of the patent, and the transferee only obtains the right to use the patented technology, not the ownership of the patent.
4. Transfer of patent right
Patent transfer refers to the act that the patentee, as the transferor, transfers the ownership or use right of his invention-creation patent to the transferee, and the transferee pays the agreed price. Once the patent transfer right takes effect, the transferee obtains the status of patentee and the transferor loses the status of patentee. The patent transfer contract shall not affect the effectiveness of the transferor entering into a patent licensing contract with others before the establishment of the contract.
Legal basis: Article 2 of the Patent Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) refers to a new design that is aesthetically pleasing and suitable for industrial application based on the shape, pattern or combination of products and the combination of colors, shapes and patterns. Visible, the design patent shall meet the following requirements:
(1) refers to the design of shape, pattern, color or their combination;
(2) It must be the design of product appearance;
(3) it must be beautiful;
(4) It must be suitable for industrial application.