How to build patent land

A patent map, called a map, should have the basic guiding function of a map to guide the development direction of enterprise products and technologies, but the road to this direction is very difficult and full of patent mines, and this "map" should also guide enterprises to avoid it effectively. The real patent map is very complicated. Making a complete patent map requires huge manpower, financial resources and material resources, which cannot be easily completed by a single enterprise. Professional patent drawings are actually very complicated, and you can't understand them without a certain professional level. The author of this paper simplifies the patent map to make it have the general function of patent map, which can be understood by non-professional managers.

There are many laws for developing patents, and it is relatively easy to master this law to develop patents. When giving lectures to enterprises, the author specially explained the "patent development formula" and explained the skills of patent development. After this formula is expanded, a simple patent map can be obtained, according to which patent development can be guided. The general principles are as follows:

Firstly, the production process of the enterprise is taken as the horizontal axis, and the production process is infinitely refined. Every process is a point. At each point, the enterprise has corresponding responsible personnel, so the corresponding personnel are responsible for the patent development at this point. These people are engaged in this all the year round and know this very well, so they will be familiar with the development work. Then draw a vertical axis from each point, and the distribution of existing patents and possible patents at that point is on the vertical axis. From this, a two-dimensional plan can be drawn, and the patent distribution of the industry can be clearly marked, so that the distribution of competitors' "patent mines" can be known, and the development direction of products and technologies can be guided, which plays the basic role of patent map.

The principle is very simple, and then how to refine each process is not as simple as imagined. The most important thing is to find the patent distribution on the vertical axis, which is unknown to ordinary retrieval. Looking for the development direction of technology and products requires professional analysis. Although we have simplified the patent map a lot, drawing such a patent map still requires professionals to make a comprehensive plan and all kinds of talents to participate. Another problem is that not everyone can develop patents at each process point on the horizontal axis, and it is necessary to form a patent development team to develop. The team members are not only technicians, but also people in marketing, finance and law.

Drawing patent map is a systematic and huge project, which cannot be undertaken by an ordinary agency. If an enterprise does not have a certain scale or determination, there is no need to start it easily.