Typically, NPE and patent piracy, its main problem for the industry is whether the existing patent system is suitable for protecting software and other technologies. Can the existing system still protect technological progress? Is the protection of patents too strong? Is it necessary to change the system to solve the problem? The issue of standard essential patents also raises related issues about system and industry development, and it is more clear. What should we do in the future under the development trend of more and more complex and open technology? This can be summed up as a challenge to the system. The above two problems also pose challenges in another aspect: the innovation of intellectual property operation mode.
As far as institutional challenges are concerned, there may not be fundamental changes in the short term, such as the next ten or twenty years, and then it is hard to say. In the short term, these trends should be clear: at present, developed countries are over-protecting intellectual property rights, and the protection intensity should be adjusted to be generally relaxed, and the licensing standards of intellectual property rights will be improved, but the opposite is true in underdeveloped countries; The national system will develop in a more unified and integrated direction; The system will be more complicated. Accordingly, it is a general requirement for employees to be more international and professional.
The innovation of intellectual property operation mode will have more shaping power to the intellectual property industry and test our wisdom and knowledge structure. In recent years, business model innovation, in addition to the support and drive of technology, has also shown an obvious cross-border development trend. The development of intellectual property industry will be even worse in this respect. What it needs is not a simple cross-border, but a deep cross-border of experts and the integration of corresponding knowledge and experience. That is to say, if you still work as a patent agent to write application documents and reply to the examination opinions, there may not be much change, but if you are deeply integrated with the business operation of the enterprise, you need experts with in-depth understanding and experience in many fields, including intellectual property, a certain industry, finance and trade, whether they are intellectual property consultants or managers, or a profession in the emerging intellectual property industry.
Another factor worth mentioning is the China factor. The development of China's intellectual property system and industry is not simply based on the western-led system. In this respect, China and western countries will have complicated games, exchanges, functions and reactions, which are supported by China's unique system, culture, huge volume and growing strength. China will be more in line with the world, but it will have its own unique system and operation mode, which will produce unimaginable results today and the world will be influenced by us. Therefore, it is definitely a big advantage for practitioners to have experience in China.