What is the function of applying for a patent and what is the harm of not applying for a patent?

Benefits and Cases of Patent Application Patent right is the most important intellectual property right. As a kind of property, patent right can be traded in the market. The patent right is protected by the national patent law, and no unit or individual may use it without the consent of the patentee. The advantages of applying for a patent are: 1. Having the technological achievements protected by the patent law is not afraid of "leaking secrets" or losing the technological achievements because of the "job-hopping" of the technical personnel of the unit. 2. Increase the stock of intangible assets and improve quality of enterprise. 3. You can monopolize the sales market of patented products, implement patents alone and obtain economic benefits. 4, through the transfer of patented technology or the implementation of patent licensing, to obtain economic benefits. 5. Patented technology can be used as a selling point of product promotion and improve product grade. 6. The patent right can be used as a pledge to lend to a bank; Or as a guarantee for financing. 7. When the number of patents reaches a certain level, you can apply for technology enterprises to enjoy preferential policies such as government taxation and export trade, as well as the premise of bidding for major projects. 8. Claim against the patent infringer. Case 1 failed to apply for a patent in time and spent 800,000 yuan to buy back his own technology. In order to solve the problem of reducing noise and improving scrubbing efficiency of washing machine, a washing machine manufacturer organized scientific research to improve its mechanical transmission mechanism and developed new transmission parts. However, due to the lack of patent protection awareness, its scientific research director failed to apply for patents for its technological innovation achievements in time. Later, the technical achievement was inadvertently understood and mastered by an external employee. Smart external employees first applied for patents for their technological achievements in their own names, and then resigned and left. Just as the research and development of the new product of the manufacturer was completed and the new product was about to go on the market, he received a warning of patent infringement, which was written by an external employee who left the company. He asked the manufacturer to pay him a patent fee of 3 million yuan before he could use the new technology that should belong to the manufacturer himself, otherwise he would go to court. There is no record of R&D process, and there is no necessary evidence to prove that it has invested in new product development in advance and made good preparations for production. The manufacturers dare not take up the challenge directly, so they have to negotiate privately and reach an agreement by paying the other party a patent license fee of 800,000 yuan. Spending 800,000 yuan to buy your own technology is really dumb to eat coptis chinensis, and you can't tell the pain. Case 2: Because there is no patent, "Xinjiang -2" was cloned in large quantities by Xinjiang United Machinery (Group) Co., Ltd., and it is in a leading position in the domestic combine harvester production field. Its "Xinjiang -2" combine harvester sells well all over the country, with a domestic market share as high as 70%, creating a miracle of continuous output of tens of thousands of units for three years. However, due to the lack of patent protection for business operators, during the period of 12, the company spent a huge cost of more than 7 million yuan to improve Xinjiang -2 and did not apply for patents for many technological innovations that were continuously developed. Because the sales of "Xinjiang -2" market were very good, many identical cloned products appeared in the market soon, thus squeezing out thousands of real "Xinjiang -2" market shares. Without the umbrella of patent, "Xinjiang -2" can only submit to humiliation. The company applied for the patent of 12 on 1998, and has since embarked on the healthy development road of "independent innovation and paying attention to intellectual property protection". Case 3: The first VCD R&D enterprise in China lost its business opportunity because of an idea. Anhui Wanyan Company was once brilliant because it launched "the first VCD machine in China". At that time, Wanyan Company, which had created the market and formed a set of mature technologies, should have the absolute advantage of occupying all VCD markets and dominating the world. However, applying for a patent seems to be of little significance. The key is to let the product occupy the market. This led Wanyan people to hand over the excellent rivers and mountains of VCD production and sales, thus forming a situation of feuding among vassals in the VCD market in the future. People can think about it, how can we monopolize the market without patents and strong legal protection of intellectual property rights? It is precisely because there is no patent protection that the first batch of 1000 VCD players launched in Wan Yan were almost all bought by domestic and foreign home appliance manufacturers as prototypes, which became the object of their anatomy and the "reliance" of the VCD market in the future. Wanyan Company is making wedding dresses for others in the face of the new products that it has worked so hard to develop, but it has to be helpless. Without patent protection, Anhui Wanyan Company, which launched the first VCD player in China, lost its market and business opportunities. The novelty requirement that most effectively prevents the same invention from being patented can prevent anyone in the world from obtaining the patent right of the same invention in any country. Because patent documents are published to the world in the form of bulletins, we applied for an invention patent in China and made it public, and the patent application for the same invention and creation updated novelty, which is a higher realm of patent strategy-preventing the same patent from being produced; Applying for a patent (group) in a competitive country can block the emergence and development of the same technology, which is the highest realm. The most effective way to protect our own inventions. If you make the invention public without applying for a patent, you may be robbed of valuable inventions by others and even lose the opportunity to change your destiny. It is difficult to protect one's technological achievements by secret means. First, it will be inadvertently leaked or maliciously stolen. Second, the materialized technical achievements will be exposed more under the current superb analytical technology. Third, people involved in development even bring technology to other enterprises or start their own businesses. The patent system determines the exclusiveness of the invention-creation granted patent right in legal form. Obtaining intangible assets to apply for patents shows that you have certain innovation ability, certain research and originality in the professional field of applying for patents, which can bring us a strong competitive advantage in employment or promotion. The quantity and quality of patents is a very important part of evaluating the leading position of enterprises or individuals in science and technology. Get economic benefits. We have patent capital. Patents can be transformed into economic benefits, can be used as investment, and can guarantee the survival and development of enterprises. There are two ways to obtain economic benefits, one is implementation and the other is permission. It can be implemented by the patentee alone, or in cooperation with others by converting the patent right into shares. License includes the license of the right to use patented technology and the transfer of patent right and even patent application right.