1. Patents are industrial property rights and are intangible assets of the company. The concept of property rights is very broad, including movable property, real estate, and industrial property rights (patents, inventions, trademarks and other intellectual property rights).
2. Equity refers to the income rights and management rights owned by investing in an enterprise and becoming a shareholder of the enterprise.
The content of property rights is very simple, that is, specific property (tangible property or intangible property), while the content of equity is more complex, including both income rights and management rights.