What benefits will the state bring to society by protecting intellectual property rights?

Intellectual property rights have become the commanding heights under the background of economic globalization, enabling enterprises to obtain excess profits and becoming the focus of competition among enterprises and even countries. The total profit of IBM in a year is 8 1 billion dollars, and the income from patent transfer alone is 654,380+0.7 billion dollars. In other words, IBM sells patents for one year, which is equivalent to Xi 'an's fiscal revenue for more than two years. Headquartered in Qualcomm, San Diego, USA, there are more than 65,438+0,400 mobile communication CDMA patents embedded in the wall of his home. With these patents, Qualcomm has changed from a manufacturer to an intellectual property store. At present, the role of intellectual property barriers in occupying and protecting the market is constantly emerging and is becoming one of the main forms of non-tariff barriers. At the same time, it is also a new means and weapon to solve international economic relations. We have entered an era of relying on intellectual property rights to participate in international competition. The first is the DVD incident. In the early 1990s, Wanyan Company in China successfully developed VCD, which is a kind of playing equipment with digital compression technology. However, because enterprises did not pay attention to the protection of this technology, that is, intellectual property rights, almost overnight, VCD began to be produced all over the country, and foreign enterprises developed DVD with higher definition on this basis and applied for patent protection. At present, six DVD technology developers, Hitachi, Panasonic, mitsubishi electric, time warner Inc., Toshiba and JVC, form an alliance, namely 6C, which challenges about 100 DVD manufacturers in China who have not paid patent licensing fees and demand high patent royalties. Previously, another DVD technology patent alliance 3C (composed of three major technology developers, Philip, Sony and Pioneer) seized DVD products exported from China on a large scale at the EU customs without paying patent tax. Although as early as June 1999, someone issued a notice asking manufacturers to buy the right to use patents, at that time, domestic enterprises lacked awareness of intellectual property rights and did not pay enough attention to it. China just joined the WTO, and the other side took the action of seizing the goods flatly, which caught these manufacturers off guard. Not long ago, China just reached an agreement with them to pay $5 to 6C and $4 to 3C for every DVD sold. The annual output of DVD in China is more than 65.438+million, which means that Chinese enterprises will pay nearly 654.38+0 billion yuan to foreign enterprises every year for only one DVD product.