1. In the evaluation of intermediate professional titles in Hubei Province, the patents and papers of electronic information specialty are both extra points recognized by the evaluation of professional titles, and they are both independent extra points. If you have it, you will get extra points; if you don't, you won't get extra points.
2. At this time, the thesis is usually a hard condition for promotion to the intermediate title. Although only patents can get high marks, there is still no promotion title without papers, so patents cannot replace papers.