With the country’s emphasis on intellectual property rights in recent years, domestic companies have further understood the role of patents in improving core competitiveness, have strengthened patent work, and the number of patent applications has increased significantly. , but there are still misunderstandings in the patent agency process that need to be improved as soon as possible. It is very important to have some patent application skills. Patent is a kind of monopoly right. If independently developed technological achievements are not patented, they will not be legally recognized and protected. Patent application skills Many people have this idea: this technical solution has not yet been put into production, and no product has been released. It is too early to apply for a patent at this time. It is more appropriate to apply for a patent after the product is put into large-scale production. By this time it is already too late, and even if you are lucky enough to get authorization, the patent is still in a precarious state. At this time, if you find that someone has infringed the patent and filed a lawsuit, the infringer will defend on the grounds that the technology has been made public as of the date of patent application. Some inventors think that after applying for a patent, they can sit back and relax, thus neglecting the continued research and development work in the later period. Even if they develop new products or make new improvements, they will no longer apply for a patent. The consequences of this misunderstanding are no different than failing to apply for a patent. Because when someone else improves the product and applies for a patent, it in turn restricts the upgrading of the original patentee's product, which causes the original patentee to inadvertently become an infringer. Some inventors believe that a technical achievement can only apply for one type of patent at a time, that is, only an invention patent, a utility model patent, or a design patent can be applied for. There are three types of patents stipulated in my country's patent law: invention patents, utility model patents and design patents. A product invention can apply for multiple patents at the same time, and technical solutions can also apply for utility model and invention patents at the same time. Judging from the review situation in the past two years, utility model patents can usually be authorized in about 4-7 months; invention patents take more than one year. Therefore, for some important product inventions, if the inventor only applies for an invention patent, and someone else applies for both an invention patent and a utility model patent at the same time, he will first obtain the utility model patent and own the patent rights for the product. If the inventor uses the product, it will constitute infringement.