How should enterprises obtain high-quality patent assets?

For enterprises, it is necessary to first establish an internal patent value evaluation system, including a patent value evaluation committee, a patent value evaluation method and a patent value management platform. Secondly, the enterprise patent value evaluation system should be fully integrated with the patent planning and layout, that is, before the enterprise carries out the patent planning and layout, it should make an overall evaluation of the patent value distribution of the industry and its main competitors, and formulate the overall patent value planning objectives in combination with the business strategy. However, in the process of patent planning and layout, the patent value evaluation should be carried out consistently and dynamically, that is, the patent value evaluation should start from the patent suggestion point and run through the whole patent life cycle, such as technology disclosure, patent application, reply of examination opinions, patent authorization or rejection, patent maintenance after authorization, patent operation and so on.

Patent portfolio planning based on patent information analysis. It is worth noting that enterprises should strengthen the analysis of patent information while planning and distributing patents and accumulating high-quality patent portfolio assets. The author thinks that enterprises should make a macro analysis of the selected patent data according to the requirements of patent planning and layout, understand the technical development direction, technical distribution, advantages and disadvantages of patents of major competitors and the patent distribution of industrial chain and supply chain, and outline the key technical fields of patent planning and layout according to the business strategic needs of enterprises. At the same time, through the interpretation of key patents, enterprises should explore the points where they can apply for patents and layout, and also expand upstream and downstream industrial chains and related technologies around the excavated patent points in combination with research and development, and explore more patent points. Moreover, enterprises should draw the value distribution map of their own patents and make a comparative analysis with competitors' patents, so as to improve their own patent planning and layout. It can be seen that through the analysis and utilization of patent information, enterprises can make more efficient patent planning and layout, accumulate high-quality patent portfolio assets and enhance their core competitiveness on the basis of understanding the technical environment, competitor information, patent hotspots, patent value distribution and other information of the whole industry, combined with their own business strategies and needs.

High-quality patent assets should be a combination of patents and a collection of interrelated and matched patents around a specific technology. High-quality patent assets should be reflected in spatial layout, technical layout, time layout or geographical layout, which is a three-dimensional patent network concept. Therefore, it is of great strategic significance to accumulate high-quality patent assets for improving the core competitiveness of enterprises.