What should I pay attention to before applying for a patent?

Before applying for a patent, enterprises should first pay attention to confidentiality, and don't disclose the invention to their peers or customers easily, otherwise they may lose the novelty requirements that patent authorization must meet because of premature disclosure, or be preempted by others; Secondly, we should analyze the prospect of authorization. The usual method is to search the applied inventions by ourselves or by entrusting intellectual property professionals, including searching domestic and foreign patent documents and consulting relevant academic journals, understanding the current situation of mastering similar technologies or products, analyzing the possibility of obtaining patent authorization, and avoiding the waste of manpower, material resources and financial resources; Finally, according to the previous retrieval and analysis results, write or entrust an agency to write a patent application document and submit the application.