1. Patent retrieval: retrieve the technical information of competitors' patents and the legal status of patents from the patent database, including patent application, withdrawal, authorization, rejection, termination or invalidation; 2. Non-patent retrieval: retrieval of competitor's technological research and development information from non-patent database, including enterprise publications, conference materials, project release, bidding, financing, advertising, cooperation, visits, etc.
second, formulate independent patent strategy
1, formulate technology research and development strategy. Through patent information retrieval and patent data analysis before project establishment, we can know 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, thus improving the starting point and efficiency of research and development and avoiding repeated research and development.
2. Decide the timing of patent application, the contents to be disclosed, the scope of protection and the 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; A patent document includes both the scope of protection defined by the claims and the contents disclosed in the specification. These two parts are related to the judgment of patent infringement and invalidation, as well as the judgment of patentability, which are the most important contents 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 of others will not be infringed when the patent is implemented. Therefore, after obtaining the patent right, it is necessary to analyze the patent disputes that may be involved in the implementation, licensing and transfer of the patent.
5. Improve the protection of patent rights through defensive and offensive strategies. Offensive patent protection strategy in technical blank areas and defensive patent protection strategy in areas with more technical barriers are all the contents that need to be considered in patent early warning.
III. Management of Patent Rights and Technical Secrets
1. Provisions on licensing of patent technology and production;
2. Provisions on patent application and transfer of patent right;
3. Provisions on the right to apply for inventions and creations of enterprise employees and the ownership of patent rights, as well as provisions on inventors' rewards, so as to prevent technology transfer;
4. Formulate regulations to prevent the disclosure of trade secrets (including technical secrets);
5. Timing of starting temporary measures and border measures;
6. The declaration of government rewards, including the preparation of documents and statistics, and to prevent the disclosure of trade secrets.