What is patent insurance? What is the significance of patent insurance for enterprise development?
What is patent insurance? What is the significance of patent insurance for enterprise development? Patent insurance refers to the insurance in which the insured takes the authorized patent as the subject matter. During the insurance period, the insurance company shall compensate the insured for the investigation expenses arising from the protection of patent rights in accordance with the contract. What is patent insurance? What is the significance of patent insurance for enterprise development? What is patent insurance? What is the significance of patent insurance for enterprise development? This kind of insurance is used to pay for the litigation expenses arising from defending the exclusive rights or defending the alleged infringement of others' patents, while patent insurance is still a new type of insurance in China. At the beginning of 20 12, eight cities including Beijing were selected as pilot cities for patent insurance. In June165438+1October of the same year, China National Intellectual Property Administration officially approved the second batch of patent insurance pilot projects in 20 regions including Fuzhou. At present, compulsory patent insurance is introduced, and the scope of insurance claims is not only patent infringement. At present, the importance of patent right as an intangible asset is increasing day by day. Patent insurance not only reduces the business risk of enterprises to a certain extent, but also protects the important patent assets of enterprises, thus obtaining the benefits due under the patent system, enhancing the competitiveness of enterprises and promoting the benign development of enterprises. What is the development status of patent insurance in China? In recent years, China National Intellectual Property Administration has chosen several cities as the pilot of patent insurance to explore patent insurance. The introduction of patent insurance, its good effect has been verified in some fields. How to make the benefits of patent insurance benefit more regions and enterprises requires the joint efforts of the government, enterprises and insurance companies to promote the development of patent insurance. Market Opportunities According to the statistics of China National Intellectual Property Administration, in 20 12 years, the national intellectual property system * * * accepted 25 cases of patent disputes, up 9 19, up 70%, including 2,232 cases of patent infringement disputes, up 946 cases, up 77.5%, and other patent disputes. 65 12 counterfeit patent cases were investigated, an increase of 4,808 cases, an increase of 282%; The total number of cases handled was 9022, an increase of 6005 over the same period of last year, with an increase of 199%. According to statistics, as of 20 12 and 12, the number of valid patents in XX province is 13003. 1. The combination of patent insurance and patent pledge is a market-oriented financing mode and a sustainable operation mode. Patent insurance is a new product that conforms to the development of knowledge economy. In the early stage of its development, it has shown great vitality and vigor, and it is the general trend to carry out patent insurance in China. Patent insurance is still relatively new to many enterprises and patentees, and it takes a process to know and recognize anything new. 2. The purpose of patent commercialization is to obtain a certain scale of benefits. Patents are essentially assets that bring benefits to enterprises or patentees. Patent insurance can escort the commercialization of patents to a certain extent, and the most important thing is the evaluation of patent quality, which greatly affects the implementation of patent insurance. In recent years, the number of patent applications in China has increased year by year, with a rapid growth rate, but at the same time, the quality of patents needs to be further improved, and the level of patent transformation and commercialization needs to be improved. Although enterprises have a certain number of patents, their technological innovation performance is very general. China's current patent insurance system contains the determination of all kinds of market participants to implement the intellectual property strategy in depth, which can be reflected by government policy support and premium subsidies. Judging from the situation at home and abroad, China enterprises are frequently sued by foreign enterprises abroad, which shows the cruelty of market competition and the importance of strengthening patent management. Therefore, in order to improve the intellectual property awareness, innovation awareness and innovation ability of enterprises, it is necessary to establish a standardized, systematic and scientific enterprise intellectual property management system and attach importance to the value of intellectual property.