Here are some suggestions to help you choose a patent application agency: if authorization and quality are not considered, the lower the price of the agency you are looking for, the better; If we pay attention to patent quality and technical protection, we should choose a suitable agency. So, how to choose the right patent application agency? From the perspective of the industry, it is better to choose a patent agency than to choose a suitable agent.
It is very important that whether it is a famous large-scale agent or a powerful small-scale agent, whether the agent is familiar with your technical field and whether the agent understands and accurately grasps your technical core. Because different technical fields are very different, it is best to choose agents and managers who are 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 application writing, but are engaged in patent translation, official reply, invalid litigation and other work with higher income, and the patent writing work is usually replaced by inexperienced newcomers. In addition, when choosing to cooperate with well-known agencies, even if some agents are appointed as managers, it is difficult for SME customers to obtain the expected agents, because senior agents often serve large enterprise customers with stable cases.
If you apply for high-quality patents in high-tech fields that pay attention to quality and protection, you need to equip high-end talents who know patents and R&D to do patent analysis and infringement analysis, so that you can correctly understand the technical core and innovative ideas of the client, complete a lot of work such as technical analysis and right comparison of a large number of patent technical documents in a limited time, and write the application strategies of defensive claims or offensive claims in the claims, which makes it difficult to break through the independent claims of patents. When writing patent claims, we should also consider the layout of the inventor's industry, evidence compensation in future litigation and other factors, so as to properly guide technicians to complete the circumvention design of the corresponding technical route, which is simply more difficult for agents who only have legal knowledge and professional foundation but not enough research and development experience.
The annual salary of high-end talents who only know technology and don't know patents is much higher than that of regular agents, often many times, so compound high-end talents who know technology and know patents are rare. Therefore, there are few institutions or companies that can engage in high-end patents at present. The main reason is cost, which is also a pain point in the current intellectual property industry. So when some high-tech customers need to write core patents, they consult the top universities in China and find that no agent is qualified for the job, so they hire talents from the United States, spending 500 dollars/hour, spending 1 week or so to write. The agency fee for a patent is 1.4 million, while the agency fee for a relatively high-end patent in China is 20,000. The normal patent agency fees in three first-tier cities such as Shenzhen, Shanghai and Beijing are 6000-8000. In some first-tier cities, in order to seek long-term development, powerful start-ups sacrifice short-term profits and take over some low-priced orders with high cost and low return. The patent agency fee in other regions is about 5500.
So objectively speaking, choosing an agency to apply for a patent is essentially choosing an agent to write a patent. Looking for an agency with a moderate price and a professional manager will have a very high cost performance and authorization rate.
This article only represents the views of Shenzhen Zelian Intellectual Property Agency Co., Ltd., if there are similarities, it is purely coincidental!