A paper refers to an academic subject that has new scientific research achievements or innovative ideas in experiments, theories or observations, or has made new progress in applying known principles to practice. The purpose of these papers is mainly to read, communicate or discuss at academic conferences, or to publish in academic journals, and some of them form project documents as the basis for project declaration or defense.
From this perspective, papers are sometimes purely theoretical, such as some mathematical formulas and algorithmic reasoning. At the same time, there are not too many restrictions on the content to be expressed in the paper. Many times, the paper only brings honor and copyright to the author.
Patents are obviously different, and the contents that patents can protect are limited, such as mathematical formulas, scientific discoveries, surgical methods, cloning technology and so on. , can be published in the form of papers, can not be protected by patents. All these are attributed to intellectual activities or processing methods in the patent law, which are not within the scope of patent law protection.
The focus of patent application is intellectual property protection, and the purpose of publishing scientific research papers is knowledge dissemination and sharing.
2. Different writing methods
The first part of the patent application is the introduction of background technology, which requires the applicant to describe and summarize the background technology and its shortcomings. The first step of a thesis or project is very similar to the application for invention patent, and it also introduces the previous research work and shortcomings. The difference is that the paper must cite and list the corresponding references, while the patent application can not list the references.
The second part of the patent application is the technical scheme. This part is similar to the method of the paper, but there are many differences. This part requires the applicant to explain the technical scheme of the invention in words and formulas, but not in charts. Even if the technical scheme of the invention is easier to explain the problem with charts, the inventor must convert the contents of the charts into words.
In particular, the technical scheme involving complex devices requires special skills to be expressed in words. There are not too many restrictions in the method part of the paper. The author of the paper can choose a writing method that is easier for readers to understand and understand, can have detailed formula derivation and charts, and can even insert photos of experimental equipment directly, which are not allowed in the patent application text.
3. Different comments
From the point of view of examination, the patent is examined by Patent examiners, and the key point is to judge whether the technical scheme of the invention is duplicated with the existing literature. The novelty of patent retrieval is an important part of authorization. Patent examiners often makes international searches from patent libraries, discussion libraries, international patent libraries and thesis libraries.
Scientific research papers are reviewed by peers, focusing on whether the experimental data are reliable and the conclusions are accurate. As Patent examiners is generally not a peer, the technical effect of the invention cannot be guaranteed through patent examination.