How to measure the technical level of high-tech enterprises from the patent level?

Intellectual property rights account for a high proportion in the identification of high-tech enterprises, and in intellectual property rights, patents are a plate with a lot of gold. Can we infer the technical level of high-tech enterprises from the number of patent applications? Sheng Da Information Consulting will answer one or two questions for you!

First, the number of patent applications can measure the competitiveness and innovation of enterprises.

1. The number of international patent applications means that applicants will submit patent applications for technologies with market value in many countries, especially the main sales destination countries, in order to obtain more economic benefits. Therefore, international patents represent more important patents, and the number of international patents has become one of the important indicators to measure the strength of competitive technology.

2. Number of valid patents: refers to the number of patents whose patent rights remain valid. Sometimes, not all patents can survive to the deadline, and patents with poor market prospects or losing market value will expire before the expiration of the protection period because the obligee fails to pay the annual fee and other reasons. Therefore, the number of valid patents can reflect the innovation ability and market competitiveness of enterprises.

Second, the number of patent applications can analyze the technological update of enterprises.

Technology update cycle refers to the average time interval between all patents of a company in a certain technical field and the patents cited by it. If the company can innovate quickly in technology and make the technology update faster, it shows that the company is very sensitive to technological changes. If the update cycle value is large, it shows that the company is slow to respond to technological changes, and it is easy to lose the opportunity of technological innovation and fall behind. An enterprise that wins by technology should always evaluate the technology update cycle of itself and its competitors in order to understand its position in this field and make adjustments in time.

In addition, the purpose of patent application can be analyzed and understood by the proportion of foreign patent applications in the total number of patents of enterprises. If an enterprise has a large proportion of foreign applications, it shows that it is more likely to enter and occupy foreign markets.