How should patent co-owners exercise their patent rights?
1. Where there is an agreement on the right to apply for a patent or the priority exercise of the patent right, such agreement shall prevail. This is the embodiment of the principle of autonomy of will. As a kind of private property owned by each patentee, when to apply for a patent and how to dispose of it should be decided by them, not by law. 2. Patents * * Where someone exercises the patent alone (1) * * Someone can exploit the patent alone, and the proceeds shall be owned by the implementer. (2) The patentee may license others to exploit the patent without the consent of other patentees, and the royalties collected shall be distributed among the patentees. 3. In the case that * * * people agree to exercise the patent right, the exercise of the patent right shall obtain the consent of all * * * people, unless there is an agreement between * * * people and * * people can exercise it alone. If * * * someone exclusively licenses or exclusively licenses others to exploit the patent, all * * people need to agree. Article 15 of the Patent Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) stipulates the right to apply for a patent or the exercise of the patent right, and such stipulations shall prevail. If there is no agreement, * * * someone can exploit the patent alone or license others to exploit it by ordinary license; Where another person is licensed to exploit the patent, the royalties collected shall be distributed among the owners. Except in the circumstances specified in the preceding paragraph, the exercise of all the patent application rights or patent rights of * * * shall be subject to the consent of the owner of * * *.