What are the procedures for patent early warning?

Broadly speaking, enterprise patent early warning refers to the mechanism by which enterprises analyze patent information in the whole process of production and operation, make early warning and actively guard against patent risks. Patent early warning can understand the possibility of patent infringement by analyzing competitors' patents and product information, so as to realize the potential value of its own patents through defense, license, transfer and litigation. The specific operation steps are as follows:

Establish and implement a clear patent early warning system.

Timing of patent early warning report.

Accept orders, manufacture products, sell products, export products, import products and develop products/technologies.

Contents of patent early warning report.

The contents of the patent early warning report include: technical feature description, patent database, patent search conditions, patent list, patent screening results, key patent infringement evaluation results and circumvention design suggestions, etc., which provide reliable guarantee for patent evaluation application.

Specialized units for patent early warning reports.

The specialized unit of patent early warning report will generally organize the preparation, and then decide whether to do it by itself or by outsourcing. In order to avoid the design results, external institutions must be entrusted for confirmation.

Application process of patent early warning report.

Head of technical department-> Head of Intellectual Property/Legal Affairs-> Top management of intellectual property.