1, the focus of the protection of different
Thesis is an academic subject in the experimental, theoretical or observational with new scientific research results or innovative insights, or the application of certain known principles in practice to make new progress, the purpose of these papers is mainly for reading in academic conferences, exchanges or discussions, or in academic journals to be published, and there are also some form of program Some of these papers are used as the basis for project declaration or defense.
From this point of view, the dissertation is sometimes purely theoretical, such as some mathematical formulas, algorithmic reasoning, and so on, at the same time, there is not much restriction on the content of the dissertation to express. A lot of times what a thesis brings to the author is just the honor as well as the copyright.
Patents are obviously different. There are restrictions on what can be protected by patents, such as mathematical formulas, scientific discoveries, surgical methods, cloning technology, etc., which can be published in the form of a thesis, cannot be protected by patents. These are categorized in patent law as intellectual activities or therapeutic methods, and do not fall within the scope of protection of patent law.
The focus of applying for a patent is on intellectual property protection, and the purpose of publishing scientific papers is on knowledge dissemination and sharing.
2. Different ways of writing
The first part of the patent application is the introduction of background technology, which requires the applicant to describe and summarize the background technology and its deficiencies. The first part of the thesis or project is very similar to the patent application, which also introduces the previous research work and its shortcomings. The difference is that the thesis must cite and list appropriate references, while the patent application can be without references.
The second part of the patent application is the technical program. This section is similar in approach to the dissertation, but differs in many ways. In this part, the applicant is required to use words and formulas to describe the technical scheme of the invention, but not diagrams. Even if the technical solution of the invention is easier to illustrate with diagrams, the inventor must convert the contents of the diagrams into words.
In particular, technical solutions involving complex devices require special skills to be expressed in words. The method part of the thesis, on the other hand, is not much more restrictive, and the thesis writer can choose a way of writing the thesis that is easier for the reader to understand and comprehend, and can have detailed derivation of formulas and diagrams, or even directly insert photos of experimental equipment, which are not allowed in the text of the patent application.
3, the review is different
From the review point of view, the patent is examined by the patent examiner, focusing on judging the invention of the technical scheme and the existing literature with or without duplication of the patent search novelty is whether to obtain authorization of an important part of the patent examiner will often be from the patent library, thesis database, and the international patent library, the thesis database of international searches.
And scientific papers are peer-reviewed, focusing on determining whether the experimental data is reliable and whether the conclusions are accurate. Since patent examiners are generally not peers, the technical effectiveness of an invention cannot be assured by patent examination.