How to consider high-value patents?
Generally speaking, the industry considers it from three angles: legal value, technical value and economic value. Legal value indicators usually include stability, inevitability, certainty of subordinate rights, validity period, multinational applications, patent licensing status and so on. Technical value indicators usually include technological advancement, industry development trend, substitutability, maturity and so on. Economic value indicators usually include market application, market scale prospect, market share, competition, policy adaptability and so on. Among the three indicators, economic value is often more important, and economic value is the ultimate goal of patent value.
What is the use of high-value patents for enterprises?
High-value patents are the core competitiveness of enterprises, and realizing enterprise transformation and upgrading has become the focus of innovation and development. Some people think that the cultivation of high-value patents is the inevitable direction of future enterprises. To develop, enterprises must cultivate their own patented weapons in order to occupy a favorable position in the market competition.
How do enterprises cultivate their own high-value patents? Generally speaking, we should do the following three things well: choose innovative technologies with broad market prospects, adopt patent layout strategy to carry out patent layout, and improve the writing quality of patent applications.
Choose a technology with innovation and broad market prospects: Choosing a technology different from the existing technology not only provides a set of alternatives to this technology, but also highlights the performance advantages of the product. At the same time, the selected technology application should have good prospects, meet users' needs or solve users' pain points, and have strong market control and competitiveness in the future to win social benefits and generate higher economic benefits.
Patent layout adopts patent layout strategy: the patent layout strategy determines the strength and intensity of patent protection by product technology, and also determines the degree of enterprise's grasp of the future market. The geographical scope of protection, the way of layout and the probability of patent authorization are all factors to be considered. In addition, a product usually involves multiple technical points, which need to be combined through patents to improve the system and competitiveness. For example, adopting the layout of the whole industrial chain, from production, manufacturing, use to distribution to products, integrating the resources of the whole industrial chain and providing patent protection; Or focus on the package layout of important patents and focus on important patents to form a package layout of patents.
Improving the writing quality of patent application: The scope of patent protection is finally embodied in the patent claim, and the writing quality of the patent claim is very important. On the one hand, enterprises should choose agents with more writing experience, adopt different descriptions to expand the scope of protection in the writing of claims, and use upper-level generalization and functional language to express them; On the other hand, enterprises should improve their own intellectual property management system, review relevant patent applications and ensure the quality of patent writing.