A patent agent can make good use of your function as a listener.
I also have patents myself, but my patents are also represented by agents. Because everyone knows that there is an 18-month disclosure period between the formal filing and the effective date of a patent. There are a lot of documents to be filled in, and there are many functions to be explained. At the same time, the scope of application of the patent must be covered as much as possible to obtain the maximum protection benefits.
For a designer, it is not easy to convert a good idea into a new design. But I believe that few designers are proficient in filling out patent documents themselves. This is when you need a good patent attorney.
A patent attorney must first understand the industry, so if you have a mechanical background, that is very, very advantageous. You have to give full play to your listening skills, because you don’t understand the other party’s design intentions. You must discover the core content of the technology through the other party’s limited words, which are usually recorded in technical briefings, and during the communication process with the other party. Only by fully understanding the technical core of this patent can you effectively organize the language and text to protect the design as widely as possible.
I can give you an example. Of course, this example is inappropriate because it violates the basic principles of patent application, but it can be used as a reference:
If you design a table with four legs , a desktop. If you are the first person to design a table, then you can apply for a patent. You write down the appearance and functions of the table in a technical documentation, and then hand it over to the agent. What does the agent do? It’s about protecting your design.
How to protect, the simplest way is that the agent will not say that your product is called a table with four legs, but should say:
"The designer's product covers the use of four legs." A product whose legs support a flat surface and realize the function of a table.” Once successful, others will no longer be able to design tables with four legs.
More successful agents will write:
"The designer's products include products that use supports to support a flat surface and realize the function of a table."
< p> Then once it is successful (of course, such a description will not be approved by the patent office), tables designed by others will no longer be allowed to have legs.It can be seen that a good agent, after fully understanding the design, can bring huge benefits to the patent inventor, while a poor agent will be the same if the patent is written or not. In almost all large companies, there is a person or team responsible for patent avoidance work. A good agent will not let others easily circumvent patents.
And I personally think that this profession is first of all a clerical job, which is very suitable for girls. In addition, it is not boring. You can often see all kinds of weird things. It should be very interesting, and the work intensity is not high. Big, not very tiring. You can try it.
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