Reverse engineering is also the growth path of newly industrialized countries. After World War II, Japan implemented the catch-up strategy and embarked on a development path of introducing technology, digesting and absorbing technology and innovating technology. The same is true of many emerging countries such as South Korea: they rely on reverse engineering to obtain technology from leading enterprises in developed countries in Europe and America, and finally catch up through improvement and innovation.
The author thinks that for enterprises in China, it is the key to make good use of reverse engineering to have a certain number of core value patents and increase the proportion of high value patents in the patent portfolio. The reason why reverse engineering is widely used abroad is that foreign enterprises have many core patents, which have huge market value, broad market application prospects and strong competitive advantages. Once these patents are infringed, it will inevitably bring immeasurable losses. Therefore, foreign enterprises will take various ways to find and find evidence of competitors' infringement at any cost. Through reverse engineering, competitors' infringement can be thoroughly exposed, even if they spend huge sums of money, many enterprises will do so.
On the other hand, China enterprises, two recent seemingly "contradictory" news are thought-provoking: First, the World Intellectual Property Organization released a report saying that China enterprises have become the largest country in patent applications; One is the list of "Top 20 12 Global Innovations 100" recently launched by Thomson Reuters, but China enterprises are not among them. Even if the scientific nature of any list can't be perfect, its index design may need to be improved, but we can still take it as a spur. Thomson Reuters's selection mainly comes from the following four aspects: the number of patent applications, the success rate of patent applications, the global coverage of patents and the influence of patents. The finalists must have at least 100 innovations during the period from 2009 to 201.
Although the number of patent applications in China has surpassed that of the United States and become the largest country in patent applications, we should also clearly see that the rapid growth of patent applications is gratifying, which reflects from one side that China's innovation ability is constantly strengthening, but the patent value needs to be further improved, which is still an important problem faced by many China enterprises.
Imagine that if a China enterprise only holds patents with low technical content and lack of competitiveness, it will obviously not spend a lot of money to use reverse engineering, knowing that these patents may only get very little infringement compensation. For domestic enterprises, the urgent task is to improve the quality of enterprise innovation and increase the ownership of core patents.
In addition, the author also believes that in order for China enterprises to know, understand and accept reverse engineering, they must change their ideas. Many domestic enterprises attach great importance to litigation and hope to get some compensation through litigation in order to achieve the goal of cracking down on competitors. Different from domestic enterprises, the patent application concept of many foreign enterprises is to maximize the economic value of patents. In fact, in many European and American countries, under the premise that the infringement fact has been established, many enterprises still think that the best solution is reconciliation, so that products can enter the market and gain a certain market share through mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures, so as to achieve more economic benefits. For both sides, it can also achieve a win-win result.