2. The company's future patent positioning
If the enterprise's patent positioning is only to defend and protect its products in order to better expand the market, then the accumulation of patents can be closely combined with products without too many forward-looking applications and reserve applications; If the company's future patent positioning is to realize patent licensing, authorization, or even as the object of litigation, it needs to pay attention to patent mining and allocate a certain number of patents with industry control.
3. Number of R&D personnel and enterprises invested by R&D.
The source of patent output is the technological innovation of enterprise R&D team, so the scale of patent application should be proportional to the number of technicians. Too much will lead to the decline of patent quality, and too little will lead to the loss of patent protection.
Enterprises often put a lot of R&D resources into their key projects, and the success of these projects is even related to the future survival of enterprises. For these key projects, we should pay attention to patent layout, ensure the quantity and quality of patent applications, optimize the patent portfolio structure, and form effective patent protection and patent countermeasures.
4. Market expansion of enterprises
Enterprises need to determine the accumulation amount and deployment area of patents according to the market expansion in the next few years. For example, when it is necessary to increase product categories or prepare to enter a certain area, the relevant patent layout also needs to be kept up in time to ensure the basic protection effect; When the product types and sales areas of enterprises are relatively unchanged, the patent accumulation of enterprises should also tend to be stable in quantity and scale, and more attention should be paid to the optimization and adjustment of structure to avoid unnecessary consumption of enterprise costs.
5. The present situation and changes of industrial patent distribution
The distribution of patents in the industry reflects the attention and risk distribution in this field to a certain extent, and the development trend of the industry can be understood from its changes. Enterprises should adjust the number and growth rate of patent applications and the structural distribution of patent deployment according to the overall situation of the industry in order to maintain the competitive position of patents.
6. Competitors' situation
One of the purposes of patent layout is to achieve a balance of power or maintain an advantage with competitors in patents. Therefore, enterprises need to refer to the current situation and changes of patent reserves of major competitors and the expansion of products and markets to formulate their own patent layout plans to ensure that enterprises have enough patent countermeasures chips.
7. Industrial development stage
At different stages of industrial development, the patent competition situation and future market expectations are different, and the corresponding patent layout priorities will be different. For example, in the embryonic stage of industrial development, the focus of enterprise patent layout is to apply for patents for some basic technologies and processes as soon as possible and complete patent enclosure. In the industry growth period, the focus of enterprise patent layout lies in occupying a certain dominant position in the important technology application and improvement direction. In the mature period of the industry, the focus of enterprise patent layout is to adjust the number and structural distribution of patents according to market conditions, and reserve patents for possible alternative technologies and product deployment.