Five misunderstandings that Guangzhou enterprises should avoid when applying for patents.

With the improvement of awareness of intellectual property protection, many enterprises and individuals began to protect their innovative technologies by applying for patents. Because they don't know much about patent law, many people have many misunderstandings about patent application. Here are five misunderstandings that Guangzhou enterprises should avoid when applying for patents. Five misunderstandings that Guangzhou enterprises should avoid when applying for a patent (1) Many enterprises or individuals are worried that if they apply for a patent for their innovative technology, the technology will be made public, and competitors can know their technical secrets through patent announcements, so they are unwilling to apply. Understand that once a product is put on the market, its technology is difficult to keep secret. Without patent application, technology will be acquired or imitated by others in the process of product circulation, or the same technical products will be developed through reverse engineering, especially in the field of machinery. Therefore, if you don't apply for a patent, you don't even have the minimum litigation rights. Even if a competitor applies for a patent first, it will be forcibly controlled by the other party. (2) Only technologies with technical content can apply for patents. Many technicians think that their innovation is only a little improvement on the existing products, and the technical content is not high, so they can't apply for patents. This understanding is wrong. Whether a patent application can obtain a patent is based on the examination standards of the patent law, such as novelty, creativity and practicality, rather than the level of technical content. (3) The invention, utility model or design that must be patented after the sample or product is put on the market is the protection of the technical scheme, not the product itself. Therefore, as long as you understand the principle of a technical scheme, you can start applying for a patent. It takes a certain amount of time and money from the formation of technical scheme to the manufacture of samples or prototypes. If you apply for a patent after making a sample or product on the market, you may miss the opportunity to apply for a patent, lose novelty, and the patent cannot be granted. (4) Only one patent can be applied for a product or a technology. A new product development process needs to overcome many technical points, and a patent is often aimed at a technical point of the product. Therefore, many technical points involved in the process of new product development can usually form multiple patents. For example, a technology has two innovations. If you apply for a patent, the typical result is that the patent only protects the use of these two innovative schemes at the same time, and when competitors only use 1 of them, there is no infringement. Therefore, if you want to get comprehensive protection, you should apply for a patent for each innovation separately. (5) Software products cannot be patented. Many people think that software can only apply for copyright, not patent. In fact, this understanding is one-sided, and the contents of copyright and patent protection are different. Software copyright protection program code; Patent protects the technical scheme itself, that is, the protection of software technical scheme by patent is the realization of its core technical scheme. It is clear in the Regulations on the Protection of Computer Software that the protection of software copyright does not extend to the ideas, processing procedures, operation methods or mathematical concepts used in developing software. Therefore, the registration of software copyright has certain limitations for the legal protection of software. The patent application protection of software makes up for this deficiency to a great extent. Here are five misunderstandings that Guangzhou enterprises should avoid when applying for patents. If you have more questions about patent application, you can continue to pay attention to Bajie Intellectual Property or contact us by phone.