How can patents or patented technologies be transformed into economic benefits?
Generally speaking, there are five ways to realize a patent:
Patent litigation, patent transfer, patent license, patent loan, patent shareholding.
1, patent litigation
After the invention patent is authorized, if someone is found to have infringed your patent right, you can initiate a patent lawsuit against the infringer and get compensation through the patent lawsuit after mastering the evidence of patent infringement.
At present, China's patent law is about to be revised, and the revised patent law will increase punitive damages for malicious patent infringement, forming a compensation system of 1-3 times. It is estimated that the lower limit of statutory patent compensation will be raised to 1 10,000, and the upper limit will be raised to 3-5 million. Therefore, in this case, patent litigation will increase significantly, and the confidence and enthusiasm of patentees in exercising their rights and safeguarding their rights will increase significantly, thus obtaining considerable patent infringement compensation.
2. Patent transfer
After your invention patent is authorized, you can sell the authorized invention patent on the patent trading platform to get the patent transfer fee. If your patented technology matches the product range of the enterprise, it is a patent that the enterprise needs, which can reduce the production cost of the enterprise and improve the product reliability and competitiveness of the enterprise, then buying your invention patent is a high probability event.
3. Patent licensing
Patent licensing is to license your invention patent to others, and collect the patent fee, which is equivalent to renting out the patent. Patent license includes general license, exclusive license and exclusive license.
For example, although Nokia has declined and sold its mobile phone business to Microsoft, it still gets more than 20 billion yuan in patent licensing fees every year. This is because Nokia has 30,000 patents, most of which are related to 2G, 3G and 4G mobile communication technologies. Some patents related to 5G network technology are also in the hands of Nokia. Almost all mobile phone manufacturing can't bypass Nokia's patents, and even Apple and Samsung have to pay patent licensing fees.
Give another example.
Qualcomm announced the licensing rate of 5G-related patents and technologies, and the licensing rate of 5G mobile phones was 3.25%. Recently, Qualcomm took Apple to court, demanding that Apple pay the high patent fees owed, amounting to $7 billion.
4. Patent loans
Patent loan refers to patent pledge loan, which evaluates your authorized invention patents and then pledges them to financial institutions to obtain loans. Patent loans can solve the cash flow problem of small and medium-sized enterprises and ensure that enterprises have enough funds to develop their business and expand their operations.
Patent loans can enjoy preferential loan interest. According to local policies, a single enterprise can generally get at least 5 million patent loans.
5. Patent Shares/Capital Contribution
Patent shareholding refers to the establishment of enterprises with patents as intangible assets to obtain equity income, patent investment instead of monetary investment, and patent rights in exchange for equity. When an enterprise is registered, it can be funded by physical objects, intellectual property rights and land use rights, and intellectual property rights can contribute 100% of the registered capital, which greatly promotes the industrialization of scientific and technological achievements.