Who has the right to apply for a patent for invention?

Patent inventors only have the right of reputation, not property rights, and can only change and cannot transfer; The patent applicant or patentee can be an individual or a unit, and the property right can be transferred; The applicant before the patent is not authorized is called the patent applicant, and the patent is called the patentee after it is authorized. Only those who have the right to apply (including natural persons and legal persons) are patentees and have patent rights. So who has the right to apply for a patent for invention? Who has the right to apply for a patent for invention? Who has the right to apply for a patent for invention? According to the relevant provisions of the Patent Law and the Contract Law, the right to apply for a patent for invention belongs to: 1, and the right to apply for a patent for invention belongs to the inventor or designer; After the application is approved, the inventor or designer shall be the patentee. 2. The right to apply for a patent for a service invention-creation belongs to the entity; After the application is approved, the entity shall be the patentee. 3, the use of the material and technical conditions of the unit to complete the invention-creation, the unit and the inventor or designer have a contract agreement on the right to apply for a patent and the ownership of the patent right, from its agreement. 4. For inventions and creations completed by two or more units or individuals, the right to apply for a patent belongs to the person who completed them or the unit or individual who completed them together. Unless otherwise agreed by the parties, the right to apply for a patent for the invention-creation entrusted for development belongs to the research developer. If the research developer obtains a patent, the client can exploit the patent for free. What many people may not know is that the same invention can only be granted a patent right! For example, if a person applies for both an invention patent and a utility model patent for his invention-creation, the utility model patent shall be granted in priority according to the time of patent application. If he wants to apply for invention patent authorization, he can only apply for abandoning the utility model patent first. And if two people apply for a patent for the same invention, then according to the provisions of the patent law, the patent right will be granted to the first applicant. According to statistics, the authorization rate of invention patents in China is only about 50%, which is risky. To obtain the authorization of invention patent, the inventor needs to apply to the Patent Office on his own initiative, and can only be authorized after the examination of novelty, creativity and practicality. Moreover, it is necessary to go through the registration formalities on schedule and pay the annual fee before the patent right is valid. Who has the right to apply for a patent for invention? Bian Xiao answered this question here. If you have more questions about patent application, you can continue to pay attention to Bajie Intellectual Property or contact us by phone.