It is said that there are a lot of junk patents in China, many of which have no market prospect or feasibility. What caused this situation?

First of all, the quality of patent applicants is low, and a large number of them are vulnerable groups such as the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled who have a lot of free time, such as teachers and students at school, retired old people and other lazy social idlers. The life of these poor people is boring, but they have a lot of free time to apply for patents. They leave the market and stay at home or school all day. When they see brooms, knives, kettles and rice spoons, they want to improve. Once you have an idea, you have to apply for a patent. The Chinese Patent Office is not strict in examining patents. No matter who you are, no matter what you think, as long as you are willing to apply and as long as you are willing to go through the application process, you can basically issue him a patent certificate, resulting in hundreds of thousands of junk patents every year. An old man who retired at home applied for more than 20 utility model patents and invention patents in one breath, and then dreamed of getting rich overnight all day, dreaming that one day someone would pay tens of millions to buy one of his patents! I even thought about how to squander this huge sum that may come.

At present, China Patent Office has more than 3 million invention-creation patents, and it is still growing at the rate of1500,000 patent applications and 400,000 patent authorizations every year. If you want to transfer these patents at a high price, isn't it a bit like winning the lottery! This is not an alarmist. You can go to the government official for verification according to my simple method: I consulted the staff of the local taxation bureau of a city in Fujian Province (a coastal economic developed special zone) and told them that I successfully transferred my patent with a transfer fee of 6,543,800 yuan. Now I'm going to pay taxes. Where should I pay taxes? This question stumped the tax bureau. The tax bureau said that I went to the tax bureau to pay the tax for the reform of the camp. The tax official said that there was no document for paying this tax. They were arguing and I was at a loss. I said to the tax collector, "How did you collect taxes before?" As a result, the answer I got was silence. I still don't know where to pay which taxes. The Inland Revenue Department has no experience in this field. What does this mean? Did everyone evade taxes after the transfer of the patent? Or has no one ever successfully transferred a patent? I believe in the latter more.

"It is no exaggeration to say that China has the largest number of patents for producing and manufacturing garbage. Nowadays, there are many patent applications, which does not mean that the level of innovation is high, but simply pursuing numbers. Why are there so many patent applications? First, there are subsidies from schools and governments, and second, there are job title evaluation indicators to cope with promotion or job title evaluation. Most of the applied patents are utility model patents, and there are not many truly valuable invention patents. Many patents can hardly be protected by international patents. There are very few major innovation and invention patents that can be seen by investors or industries. "

Go to China National Intellectual Property Administration's website to see more than 4 million patents in China. The annual maintenance fee charged by the patent office is an astronomical figure. 90% of patents are of little value, and less can be converted into products. If there were not so many garbage patents, the annual income would be much less. Perhaps this is also a market factor for the existence of a large number of junk patents. Of course, there are also a large number of patents that will soon expire after authorization because they do not pay annual fees.