How to effectively monitor patents

Patent monitoring is a very important activity, which refers to monitoring and tracking the legal status, annual fee status and other information in the whole life cycle of a patent from application submission to expiration. It can improve the management efficiency of intellectual property rights and reduce unnecessary losses and risks caused by human negligence; Strengthen the enterprise's own understanding of the intellectual property, technology and strategic layout of the industry, competitors, partners, affiliated enterprises and other organizations. At present, the methods of patent monitoring mainly include:

First, the traditional manual method: proprietary patents: At present, most enterprises and universities apply for patents mainly through agency services, and some general agencies can monitor the legal status through industry systems such as EAC. For non-proprietary patents, patents of other institutions are generally known through patent search tools at present.

2. Internet monitoring tools: Generally, big data is used to monitor the legal status fields of patents and the payment information of annual patent fees in quasi-real time, and once the information changes, a message will be sent to remind the monitors.

For enterprises, there are many unknowable phenomena in patent monitoring, and a tool that can grasp the real-time changes of patents is needed. At present, Bao Feilian intellectual property custody system is a good choice, and the operation is relatively simple and easy to use. You can search it.