It is very important that whether it is a famous large-scale agent or a powerful small-scale agent, whether the screenwriter of the agent is familiar with your technical field and whether the screenwriter understands and accurately grasps your technical core. Because different technical fields are very different, it is best to choose the screenwriter of the agency company who is familiar with and good at your technical field. However, it should be noted that in some so-called excellent and famous agency companies, the nominal agents are not really engaged in patent writing, but are engaged in patent translation, official reply and invalid litigation with higher income, and patent writing is usually replaced by inexperienced newcomers. In addition, when choosing to cooperate with a well-known agent, even if an agent is appointed as a writer, it is difficult for SME customers to obtain the expected agent, because senior agents often serve large enterprise customers with stable case sources.
The most important thing to point out is that the application for science and technology patents that pay attention to quality and protection needs to be equipped with high-end talents who know patents and know R&D for patent analysis and infringement analysis, so as to correctly and deeply understand the technical core and innovative ideas of the client and complete the technical analysis and rights comparison of tens of thousands of patent documents and technical documents in a limited time. Only in this way can the application strategies of defensive claims and offensive claims be written in the claims, so that the independent claims of patents are not easy to be broken, with solid stability and the widest scope of protection. Moreover, when writing patent claims, we should also consider the inventor's industry layout, evidence compensation in future litigation and other factors, so as to properly design the corresponding technical route, which is simply more difficult for agents who only have legal knowledge and professional foundation but not enough R&D experience.
However, the annual salary of compound high-end talents who know both patents and technology is much higher than that of the above-mentioned outstanding and famous senior agents, often several times to twenty or thirty times, and usually works for the top experts of the world's top high-tech companies. So at present, there are almost no agency companies in China that can engage in high-end patents. The main reason is the labor cost of mismatch between income and expenditure, which is also a pain point in the patent agency industry at present. Therefore, when some technical clients need to write high-quality patents, they consult the top universities in China one by one and find that there are no writers who are qualified for the job, so they hire American talents, which costs about 1 week to write, and the agency fee is 1.4 million. It is not excluded that some powerful start-ups take some low-priced orders with high cost and low return in order to seek long-term development and sacrifice short-term profits, and they can entrust such start-ups who know technology and patents, with high cost performance and authorization rate.
The reputation ranking and qualification identification of patent agencies can be achieved through various channels. Of course, if your understanding of this industry is blank, I believe that in an unknown environment, ranking and qualification are relatively safe standards. However, writing patents is not like producing products with machines. It is the writer and quality control who write your patent, so the ability level of the writer and quality control plays a decisive role. Therefore, objectively speaking, choosing an agency when applying for a patent is essentially choosing the author and quality controller who wrote the patent.