Cooperative invention patents are available. According to relevant legal provisions, inventions and creations completed by cooperation between two or more units or individuals have the right to apply for patents, unless otherwise agreed. After the application is approved, the applicant unit or individual becomes the patentee.
Legal Basis
Article 8 of the Patent Law of the People's Republic of China
Inventions and creations completed by cooperation between two or more units or individuals, one For inventions and creations completed by an entity or individual upon acceptance of entrustment from other entities or individuals, unless otherwise agreed, the right to apply for a patent belongs to the entity or individual who completed or jointly completed the application; after the application is approved, the entity or individual applying for the patent shall Patentee.
Article 14
If the holder of the right to apply for a patent or the patent right has an agreement regarding the exercise of the right, the agreement shall prevail. If there is no agreement, the first owner can implement the patent alone or license others to implement the patent in the form of a general license; if the patent is licensed to others, the royalties collected shall be distributed among the first owners.
Except for the circumstances specified in the preceding paragraph, the exercise of the owner's patent application right or patent right shall require the consent of all owners.