For example, you gave the plan to the agent and signed a confidentiality agreement. If you are a person with a sense of security, just in case, you persuaded the agent to agree to go to the relevant department for notarization. Is this cruel enough? But after the agent got your plan, he found that your plan was exquisite, subverting all the known products on the market, and its value was immeasurable. If he really wants to steal, he can quickly complete the writing of the application materials, ask his associates to submit the materials to the State Patent Office one step ahead of time, and the application date will be generated one step ahead of time, and then help you submit the application materials in a few days. Because your application date is later, you can't get authorization, because the state stipulates that the application shall prevail first, and then. Then can you sue him? It's hard, unless you have sufficient evidence, even if the two inventions are exactly the same, it can't prove that people copied you. People can also invent and make scientific discoveries. Why can it only be you? Maybe you copied someone else's Only then did I realize that the notarization of any so-called "confidentiality agreement" is a "blank check" and useless!
But in reality, we have never heard of agents stealing other people's inventions. Maybe, maybe not. If there is, it should be rare. Why? Are all patent agents professional? I don't think so. Everyone is mortal. No one is a saint or a fairy. It is difficult to stand the test in the face of huge interest temptation. Perhaps it is because there are few inventions with great value, so there is no theft. A patent agent may not meet an invention that excites him in his life! Just like Fan Wei's route: take this as a test for cadres? No cadre can accept such a test! !