What are the types of patent licenses?
The type of patent license, also known as patent license trade, refers to the patent technology owner or his authorized person authorizing others to implement the patent he owns in a certain period, in a certain region and in a certain way, and charging others for the use of the patent, which can be divided into manufacturing license, use license and sales license. , with the function of transformation, application and popularization of patented technological achievements. So what are the types of patent licenses? Patents; ; Patent type patent implementation license: general implementation follows the general implementation license contract. The licensee of the contract shall, under the authorization of the licensor, exploit the patent in the way of use agreed in the contract within the time and geographical scope agreed in the contract. At the same time, the patentee reserves the right to exploit the patent in the same area and at the same time and to license a third person to exploit the patent. Type of patent exploitation license: exclusive exploitation According to this contract, the licensee enjoys the exclusive exploitation right of the patent within the time and geographical scope agreed in the contract and in the use mode agreed in the contract. Within the time and geographical scope agreed in the contract, the patentee shall not permit any third party to exploit the patent in the same way, but the patentee may exploit it by himself. Types of patent exploitation license: exclusive exploitation of this contract means that the patentee allows the licensee to exploit the patent exclusively within the time and geographical scope agreed in the contract, thus excluding anyone including the patentee from exploiting the patent. Types of patent exploitation license: mutual exchange, mutual exchange and exploitation license contract refers to the agreement reached by licensor and licensee on mutual licensing of each other's patents, also known as cross-exploitation license contract. Types of patent licensing: sub-licensing contracts are relative to basic licensing contracts. In the patent exploitation license contract, if the licensor allows the licensee to conclude a license contract with a third party on the same patent, and the third party will exploit the patent within the time limit and geographical scope agreed in the contract, the latter license contract signed by the licensee and the third party will be divided into implementation license contracts. Sub-licensing contracts can only be subordinate to the basic licensing contracts, and there can be no transcendence.