1. Confidential
When developing new products, enterprises should try to reduce the number of project team members and ask them to undertake confidentiality obligations. The project name can be coded. Before applying for a patent, there will be no press conference, no papers and no appraisal meeting. The purpose of this is to prevent competitors from knowing the development trend and intention of this enterprise, especially the technical scheme of new products, and to avoid the infringement of this enterprise caused by competitors applying for patents first.
2. Patent investigation
The development is changing with each passing day, and the number of patent documents is increasing by 6.5438+0 million pieces every year, and most inventions are improved inventions. Therefore, novelty retrieval must be carried out before applying for and implementing patents to avoid falling into the protection scope of others' patents. Optimism that one's invention belongs to the first innovation without novelty search and luck that the same invention will not exist are absolutely unacceptable. Even if an invention without novelty search can apply for a patent, its legal stability is not firm. There may be gains and losses, and they are investigated by law for alleged infringement.
Apply first
Patent applications must be pre-emptive, especially in countries that adopt the principle of first application. Article 9 of China's Patent Law stipulates that if two or more applicants apply for a patent for the same invention-creation, the patent right shall be granted to the first applicant. Therefore, enterprises should not only nip in the bud, but also take the initiative to seize the commanding heights when formulating patent application strategies. This will prevent the same invention from being patented again. Therefore, it will greatly reduce the probability that this enterprise infringes the patent rights of others.
4. Literature disclosure
After the new product is patented, it is still necessary to continue to study various technical schemes to further improve the new product, and disclose to the public in time other possible schemes that the unit does not intend to implement in the near future, but once it is patented by other enterprises first, it will hinder the implementation of the unit. In order to prevent other enterprises from using the peripheral patent strategy against themselves, restricting the development of their own enterprises and causing infringement.
5. Patent purchase
Is to buy competitors' patents for their own use, to avoid the other party suing their constantly improving new products on the grounds of patent infringement.