How to share patents?

First, sign a patent licensing contract. After the signing of this contract, the patent still belongs to the patentee (licensor), and the licensee can use the patent at the time and place agreed in the contract. After the two parties sign the contract, they should go to the local department in charge of patents, usually the XX agency of the Intellectual Property Office (Wuhan agency in Hubei province, Guangzhou agency in Guangdong province, Shenzhen agency) to file the patent licensing contract, and all the formalities are complete.

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Patent licensing is generally divided into the following categories for reference only:

1. Exclusive license.

It means that in the time and area agreed by the obligee and the licensee in the contract, only the licensee is allowed to implement its patented technology, and no one else may exercise its patented technology. In this case, the patentee also lost the right to use his patented technology in the designated time and region.

Second, exclusive license.

It means that only the patentee and the licensed user have the right to use the patent within the time and region agreed in the contract, and no one else has the right to use the patent.

Three, general license, also known as general license, non-exclusive license.

It means that the obligee and the licensee can use the patent, and the obligee can also allow a third person to use the patent.

Fourth, sub-licensing.

It means that both the patentee and the licensed user can use their patents, and both the patentee and the licensed user have the right to allow others to use their patents.

Five, cross licensing, also known as mutual licensing.

It means that two patentees allow each other to exploit their own patents within the agreed time, region and scope. In other words, A allows B to use A's patent and B allows A to exercise B's patent.

All patentees can choose the licensing method according to the actual situation.