What is the cost of intellectual property protection in China?

1. What is the cost of intellectual property protection in China? In China, the cost of intellectual property protection ranges from several hundred yuan to several thousand yuan. (1) Overall planning and effective management of the company's intellectual property rights may involve different forms of intellectual property rights, such as patent rights, trademark rights, copyright (especially the copyright of computer software), trade secrets and domain names. Therefore, it is suggested that the company plan and manage the intellectual property rights involved: 1. The company can assign a special person to be responsible for the management of intellectual property rights, list the details and establish files. 2. Classify intellectual property rights according to their actual value creation, importance to the company's development and maintenance cost. 3. Establish intellectual property data platforms, such as Chinese and foreign patent databases, China sci-tech periodicals databases, Chinese and foreign standard databases, etc., to keep abreast of the latest data and information at home and abroad, so as to avoid the waste of the company's capital caused by repeated research and the infringement of other intellectual property owners. 4. Comprehensive use of intellectual property rights to protect the company's interests. Intellectual property covers a wide range. When signing a contract or encountering disputes, it is often difficult to effectively protect the company's rights and interests in some cases. At this time, it is necessary to exercise several rights together, which can often achieve satisfactory results. (2) Take different protection measures for different types of intellectual property rights. 1. On the basis of analyzing the cost and expected income, the company should hire professional agencies to apply for intellectual property rights that may have a significant impact on the company, such as trademark rights, patents, copyrights, domain names, etc., so as to protect the company's interests to the maximum extent. In the process of cooperation with other units or individuals, it is necessary to make detailed provisions on the ownership, scope of use, duration and distribution of subsequent research and development results of the intellectual property involved, and sign relevant legal documents. 2. Legal issues needing attention in the process of protecting intellectual property rights: 1) Copyright protection of computer software: Although Article 6 of China's Regulations on the Protection of Computer Software stipulates that the software developed by China citizens and units, whether published or not, shall enjoy copyright in accordance with these regulations. At the same time, however, Article 24 of the Ordinance also stipulates that the registration of software copyright with the software registration administration institution is the premise of administrative handling or litigation of software rights disputes according to this Ordinance. The registration certificate issued by the software registration authority is the preliminary proof that the software copyright is valid or the facts stated in the registration application documents are true. Therefore, in order to better protect the copyright of the company's computer software, the company should register the self-developed computer software with the software registration authority, so as to avoid being in a passive position because it cannot provide strong evidence when disputes arise. 2) Protection of patented technology: Before developing new technologies, we should inquire about related technologies to see whether others already have such technologies or whether they infringe others' patents, so as to avoid blindly going to projects. After deciding on R&D, a confidentiality agreement shall be signed with the technical personnel, stipulating that the technical achievements obtained in the research shall be owned by the company, and the technical personnel shall not take the relevant technical data with them when they leave the company, and shall not engage in the same, similar or competitive work as the original unit for a period of time after leaving the company. Establish files to ensure a complete record of technical progress. In China, if intellectual property rights are to be protected, there are certain expenses, which are mainly for maintaining some basic protection measures, so they are generally not too expensive, but they are different according to the specific protection measures, for example, ranging from several hundred yuan to several thousand yuan.