1. patent retrieval: retrieve the technical information and legal status of competitors' patents from the patent database, including patent application, withdrawal, authorization, rejection, termination or invalidation; 2. Non-patent retrieval: retrieve competitors' technological research and development information from the non-patent database, including enterprise publications, conference materials, project release, bidding, financing, advertising, cooperation, visits, etc.
Second, develop independent patent strategy.
1, formulate technology research and development strategy. Through patent information retrieval and patent data analysis before project establishment, we can understand the technical status of innovative projects, understand the patent layout of potential competitors or collaborators, grasp the frontier of technological competition, and find the breakthrough of technological innovation, so as to improve the starting point and efficiency of research and development and avoid repeated research and development.
2, decide the timing of the patent application, public content, protection scope and protection area. The protection of patent rights is time-sensitive and regional, so the timing and region of patent application can be decided according to the patent layout of competitors in different countries; Patent documents include the scope of protection defined by the claims and the contents disclosed in the specification. These two parts involve the determination of patent infringement and invalidity, as well as the determination of patentability, which is the most important content for enterprises.
3. Pay attention to the reply of patent examination opinions and the adjustment of protection scope.
4. Determine the implementation, licensing and transfer scheme after the patent application is authorized. The fact that a patent application is granted a patent right does not mean that the patent will not infringe on others' patents when it is implemented. Therefore, after obtaining the patent right, it is necessary to analyze the patent disputes that may be involved in the implementation, license and transfer of the patent.
5. Improve the protection of patent rights through defensive and offensive strategies. Offensive patent protection strategy in the field of technology blank and defensive patent protection strategy in the field with more technical barriers are the contents that need to be considered in patent early warning.
Three. Management of patent rights and technical secrets
1, which stipulates the patent technology license and production license;
2. Provisions on patent application and patent right transfer;
3. Provisions on enterprise employees' right to apply for invention and creation and the ownership of patent rights, as well as provisions on inventors' rewards to prevent technology transfer;
4, formulate regulations to prevent the disclosure of trade secrets (including technical secrets);
5. Time to start temporary measures and border measures;
6, declare the government incentives, including the preparation of documents and statistics, and prevent the disclosure of trade secrets.