Why apply for a patent?

Benefits of individual patent application

1. Students

In the key link from primary school to junior high school, you can be admitted to key junior high schools, private junior high schools and foreign language junior high schools.

2. Junior high school students

In the senior high school entrance examination, some places can directly add points, some places are directly admitted to key high schools as science and technology special students, and some places can participate in independent enrollment of key high schools.

3. High school students

You can participate in the independent enrollment of key universities such as 985, 2 1 1, which is equivalent to dropping more than 20 points to enter key universities.

4. College students

(1) Add points for applying for settlement. Fresh graduates who settle in Shanghai can get 5 points for their invention patent certificates.

(2) extra points for insurance research/postgraduate study. For example, Wuhan University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Geo University and other universities expressly stipulate that students who have obtained patents can enjoy the admission policy of 5- 10.

(3) It is more advantageous to apply for national scholarships and national inspirational scholarships.

5. Want to study abroad

If you have an invention patent certificate, you can get extra points if you apply for a prestigious university in the United States, Britain, Germany and Canada.

6. Other individuals

(1) integral settlement. Such as Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and other places, the patent certificate can add 10-50 points.

(2) Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurs with patented technology can get support and incentive policies from the government and the park, and are favored by investors.

(3) Evaluating professional titles. Doctors, technicians, teachers, researchers, civil servants, etc. You can get extra points for holding a patent certificate when evaluating a professional title.

(4) commutation. The third paragraph of Article 78 of the Criminal Law and the third paragraph of Article 29 of the Prison Law stipulate that criminals can get a reduced sentence if they get a patent for invention.

(5) make money. No matter whether you transfer a patent or license a patent, you can get income.

(6) skilled immigrants. Holding the invention patent certificate, the immigration fee is low, the visa speed is fast and the visa success rate is high.

(7) Technology Unit. You can use intellectual property rights to obtain shares and equity, become a shareholder of the enterprise, and enjoy equity dividends.

(8) Become an inventor. Individuals holding three invention patents or utility model patents may apply to join the China Inventors Association.

Benefits of enterprises owning patents

1, market promotion, enhance the competitiveness of enterprises.

Patent certificate is conducive to enhancing the innovative image of products and enterprises, and to the success of enterprises in market competition. Companies that dominate the market are basically the best in the industry in terms of the quantity and quality of patents.

2. There are many government support and incentive policies.

At present, China implements the policy of vigorously promoting the number of patent applications, and most local governments take increasing the number of patent applications as their basic policy.

(1) Discounted loan. The science and technology departments of various provinces and cities and the central sub-branch of the People's Bank of China have made political plans, and enterprises have pledged their patent certificates and obtained discount loans from banks.

(2) Innovation Award. All provinces and cities shall implement scientific and technological innovation incentives or special financial subsidies for enterprises with patent certificates. For example, an invention patent award in Shanghai is about 2000 yuan, and an invention patent award in Guangzhou is about 10000 yuan.

(3) High-tech enterprises. Being rated high is not only an honor, but also a substantial tax reduction. However, the high-standard declaration requirements clearly stipulate that independent intellectual property rights are required, and invention patents are the best.

(4) Enterprises with intellectual property advantages. Many local governments have also formulated incentive policies for enterprises with intellectual property advantages. Enterprises that meet certain conditions will be rated as pilot, demonstration or advantageous enterprises in intellectual property rights, and they will be awarded 400,000-600,000 yuan.

3. Obtain venture capital and go public for financing.

Enterprises with independent intellectual property rights are more likely to find venture capital and go public for financing. After the evaluation procedures of intellectual property evaluation institutions and accounting firms, a patent may be negotiated into tens of millions of registered capital. Of course, many companies planning to go public are even forced to give up listing because of intellectual property disputes. Therefore, enterprises that need to find venture capital and plan to go public need to pay more attention to the reserve of intellectual property rights.

4, transfer, license to make money

Six companies, including Apple, Microsoft and Blackberry, spent $4.5 billion to buy 6,000 patents transferred by Nortel, and the average price of each patent was $750,000. Technology+patent transfer mode to increase the innovative value of technology. In the case of not wanting to transfer his own patent right at one time, the patentee may authorize others to exploit his own patent through licensing, and charge the licensee a certain license fee.

5. Understand technology and market trends.

Patent literature is a technical treasure house. By searching related technical fields, we can obtain technical information of the industry and competitors and understand the technical development trend. At the same time, searching before research and development can greatly shorten the development time and save a lot of research and development expenses.

6. Protect yourself and attack your competitors.

Applying for a patent according to a certain plan will make the company's intellectual property strategy rise from a single patent application to the field of enterprise competition strategy. After careful planning, patent application can prevent others from infringing, attack competitors and seize the market initiative.