What's the difference between an inventor and a patentee?

1. Definition difference: the collective name of patent owner and holder. That is, when the patent application is approved, the patent applicant is granted the patent right. The patentee can be a unit or an individual. An inventor in a patent for invention or a patent for utility model is called an inventor if he contributes to the specific substantive features of the invention. The inventor is a natural person.

2. From the perspective of rights, the rights of the patentee include the personal rights of the patent and the property rights of the patent. The inventor's rights include the right of authorship, and the inventor may request the Patent Office not to publish his name.

3. Different characteristics: patent inventors only have the right of reputation, not property rights, which can only be changed and cannot be transferred. Patent applicants or patentees can be individuals or units, and property rights can be transferred. The applicant before the patent is not authorized is called the patent applicant, and the patentee after the patent is authorized. Only those who have the right to apply (including natural persons and legal persons) are patentees and have patent rights.

Matters needing attention in the change of patentee

Where the patent applicant or patentee requests to change the patent applicant or patentee due to the transfer or donation of rights, it must submit the original or notarized copy of the transfer or donation contract, which is concluded by a legal person and must be signed or sealed by the legal representative or authorized person, and stamped with the official seal or special seal of the legal person.

Submit notarized documents when necessary. When concluding a contract, citizens shall sign or seal it, and submit notarized documents when necessary. Where there is more than one patent applicant or patentee, the certification materials that all the obligees agree to transfer or give shall be submitted.

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