Patent introduction:
Patent refers to exclusive interests and rights. Such a huge information resource is far from being fully utilized. In fact, for enterprise organizations, patents are the only place where competitors have to disclose some key information to the public, and these information will not be disclosed elsewhere. Therefore, the analyst of enterprise competitive intelligence can obtain a lot of useful information from patent literature through careful, rigorous, comprehensive and relevant analysis, so that the public patent information can be used by enterprises, thus realizing its unique economic value.
Classification of patents
1, invention patent
The patent laws of most countries do not define invention. It can be considered that the invention is a technical scheme put forward by the inventor to solve a specific problem by using the laws of nature. The inventor can only succeed if he applies to the Patent Office for this technical scheme and passes a series of rigorous examinations, especially the examination of novelty, creativity and practicality. Grant a patent right to an application for a patent for invention that meets the requirements. The applicant should also go through the registration formalities on schedule and pay the annual fee for the current year, so that the application for a patent for invention can formally become an invention patent with various patent attributes.
2. Patent for utility model
The product shape mentioned in the utility model patent refers to the definite spatial shape that the product has and can be observed from the outside. The technical scheme proposed for product shape can be the technical scheme proposed for product three-dimensional shape, such as the improvement of cam shape and cutter shape; It can also be a technical scheme of two-dimensional shape of products, such as the improvement of sectional shape of profiles. Gaseous, liquid, powdery, granular substances or materials, which have no definite shape, cannot be used as the shape characteristics of utility model products.
The product structure mentioned in the patent for utility model refers to the arrangement, organization and relationship of various components of the product. The product structure can be either a mechanical structure or a circuit structure. Mechanical structure refers to the relative position relationship, connection relationship and necessary mechanical cooperation relationship between components that make up a product, and circuit structure refers to the determined connection relationship between components that make up a product. The composite layer can be considered as the structure of the product, and the carburized layer and oxide layer of the product belong to the composite layer structure.
design patent
Design patent is the object of patent right and the object of patent law protection, which refers to the design that should be granted patent right according to law. It is completely different from the invention or utility model, that is, the design is not a technical solution. "Appearance design refers to a new design that is aesthetically pleasing and suitable for industrial application based on the shape, pattern or combination of products and the combination of color and shape and pattern. Visible, the design patent shall meet the following requirements:
(1) refers to the design of shape, pattern, color or their combination;
(2) It must be the design of product appearance;
(3) it must be beautiful;
(4) It must be suitable for industrial application.