What is the realistic development and prospect of patent agents?

1. Status. At present, the occupation of patent agents is polarized. Among the large-scale and highly specialized law firms and agencies, patent agents have high-level, high-income and high-quality customer resources, and their abilities are constantly improving, showing a benign development. However, there are still a large number of low-end services in the market, with mixed quality. Many cases come from the unrealistic demand for innovation and protection, but from the demand for local funding or evaluation of the number of patents needed by high-tech enterprises. In low-end firms, patent agents are faced with low-quality cases, and their ability is difficult to improve, and the nature of their work is becoming labor-intensive.

2. Prospects. The prospects are promising, but polarization will continue to intensify. Because at present, patent applications mainly come from Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Zhejiang and Jiangsu. Other provinces are far from rising, and the market space is large. The development of China is bound to take the road of transformation and upgrading, which inevitably involves a lot of technological innovation and design innovation. However, the polarization of patent agents will continue in the future, and low-end agency services will become more and more difficult. On the one hand, the favorable policies such as state funding are unsustainable, on the other hand, the tourists obtained through information asymmetry will gradually die out after entering the Internet era. In addition, the Internet will change many process businesses. Therefore, if you want to develop well after entering this industry, you need to develop professionally, which means you should stop thinking about taking your brother for a long time and stop working for yourself. The future development direction is just to rely on our own efforts.

3. Cross-border development of patent agents. This is an additional topic. In fact, patent agency is only a part of intellectual property services. In the long run, patent agents will be more competitive if they can provide services such as patent consultation and patent system construction in addition to traditional services such as application, invalidation and litigation.