Innovation risk mainly lies in the uncertainty of innovation process and input cost result, which is likely to lead to the loss of innovation.
The difference between protection and prevention lies in that protection focuses on obtaining effective patent and copyright application and registration through strategic re-assurance of reasonable intellectual property rights of own technology, while prevention lies in preventing infringement of the rights of others and preventing others from initiating lawsuits. So how to protect innovation and prevent risks? Let's take a closer look.
First of all, about the method of protecting innovation, this topic is relatively broad. Here are some key points to share with you. For the protection of innovation, we must first have a reasonable patent layout.
Patent layout requires enterprises to fully understand their own technology and patent foundation, understand the external environment and competitors, understand the development trend of domestic and foreign markets, and formulate feasible patent layout strategies.
The second key point of protecting innovation is to apply for high-quality patents in combination with patent layout strategy. To apply for high-quality patents, the team needs rich writing experience, fully understand the patent rules at home and abroad, and effectively use the patent rules (such as the renewal system in the United States) to improve the value of patents.
Second, regarding the prevention of risks, the basic work includes recognizing risks and coping with them. Of course, on the basis of understanding risks, we can also actively hedge risks.
First of all, understand the risk, which is the basis for coping with the risk and actively hedging the risk. Usually, to understand the patent risks faced by enterprises, the main tasks involved include collecting and analyzing product-related patent information, deeply understanding the patent layout of competitors, tracking related lawsuits in the industry, and deeply understanding the patent ecology of the target market.
After understanding patent risks, enterprises can formulate measures to deal with risks according to specific needs, including avoiding design, submitting opinions, actively starting invalid procedures, and licensing patent acquisition.
Avoidance design refers to the situation that may bring risks, combined with the analysis of high-risk patents, and guides the R&D team to carry out reasonable R&D and innovation, so as to achieve the purpose of avoiding risks. Opinions include different types, such as non-infringement opinions and free operation (FTO).
If this part is expanded, there will be a lot of content, so it will not be expanded too much as an introductory guide.