Patent management is a master plan for obtaining and maintaining market competitive advantage, managing patent protection means and patent information provided by the patent system, and seeking the best economic benefits. This statement seems a bit embarrassing. To put it simply, patent operation is the act of embedding the creation, layout, operation and management of patents into the industrial chain, value chain and innovation chain of enterprises by taking patent application and patent right as the operation object and market operation as the means, so as to promote the integration of innovative resources and optimize the resource allocation structure of enterprises and maximize the economic value of patent market. To put it bluntly, patent operation is to transform patents into economic value, gain benefits and realize profitability.
The modes of patent operation include: patent transfer, patent auction, patent licensing, patent pool, patent custody, technology transfer, patent protection, Industry-University-Research cooperation intermediary service, patent exhibition transaction, etc.