What is the function of the patent system?

The patent system is the product of a certain historical stage, which comes into being and develops with the development of commodity economy. /kloc-After the 7th century, the appearance of modern mass production and the rapid development of commodity economy made advanced science and technology play an increasingly important role in social production, and new technology became the most effective means of competition.

1: On the one hand, the owners of new technologies demand to protect their new technologies through legal means; On the other hand, the society needs the owners of new technologies to disclose their new technologies to the society as soon as possible, avoid repeated research and development, promote the development of science and technology, make new technologies more widely used in social production, and promote social and economic development.

2. Under this historical condition, the patent system has been widely developed in the world.