What are the three ways to formulate patent strategy?

Most people think that patent strategy is divided into three levels. The first is the national patent strategy, which basically serves the country to formulate internal and external policies; The second is the industry patent strategy, which basically revolves around the overall development plan of the industry. These two levels of patent strategy belong to macro-management level, and their research methods are very different from the third level of enterprise patent strategy to be discussed in this paper, so I will not describe them in detail for the time being.

The formulation and implementation of enterprise patent strategy basically revolves around how new products and technologies of enterprises should face the market. At present, there are usually three methods to formulate enterprise patent strategy or strategy, whether internationally or domestically: one is expert question and answer method, the other is mathematical statistics method, and the third is market research method.

Expert question and answer method is an ancient and effective method. According to the needs of the research object of patent strategy, it puts forward many questions, asks many experts to answer back to back, and then makes probability statistics on the answers of many experts, and then takes the results of probability statistics as an important basis for formulating patent strategy. Experts are experienced and their answers are of great value in most cases. However, it is undeniable that experts are people, not gods. People are limited, and people are allowed to make mistakes. Especially in today's rapid update of science and technology, the limitations of experts are more obvious, so the defects of this method are more and more obvious.

On this basis, through research and practice, people gradually accepted the method of mathematical statistics to formulate enterprise patent strategy. Mathematical statistics turn the research object into patents and patent application documents according to the needs of the research object. It selects all patent documents related to the research object for mathematical statistics, and at the same time makes mathematical statistics on the main claims of these patent documents, and then makes mathematical statistics on these patent documents according to the past, present and future, and then summarizes these mathematical statistics curves for logical analysis. Through the analysis, people can get many important parameters that conform to the objective situation, such as determining whether the market trend of new products and technologies studied is sunrise industry or sunset industry; Determine the development trend of new products and technologies in the next few years and where the remaining market is; Determine who the potential market competitors are in the next few years; Judging the transition direction of the new products and technologies studied; Look for partners who can get the maximum market benefits at the lowest cost; You can even judge the strategic intentions of competitors. (The specific statistical analysis method has been mentioned many times by the author and related comrades in other articles, so I won't repeat it because of the space limitation of this article). According to the above statistical parameters, the makers of enterprise patent strategy can develop their strengths and avoid weaknesses according to the characteristics of their own enterprises, and formulate a patent strategy in line with their own maximum market interests.