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Article 8 Unless otherwise agreed in the Patent Law, the right to apply for a patent belongs to an invention-creation completed in cooperation with two or more units or individuals, or an invention-creation entrusted by other units or individuals. After the application is approved, the applicant unit or individual shall be the patentee. Therefore, the applicants in the same patent application can be two different companies. Measures for holdover of patent fees Article 4 Where two or more individuals or individuals and units apply for a patent at the same time, they may request a holdover of 70% of the application fee, examination fee and annual fee for an application for a patent for invention and 60% of the maintenance fee and reexamination fee for an application for a patent for invention. If more than two * * * units apply for a patent at the same time, the patent fee will not be slowed down.