What is the importance of intellectual property to enterprises?

Intellectual property work plays a very important role in promoting the development of enterprises.

1. Only by strengthening the protection of intellectual property rights can we ensure the business safety of enterprises. Enterprises, especially scientific and technological enterprises, are mostly at the forefront of technological innovation, and produce products suitable for market demand through scientific and technological research and development. Strengthening the protection of intellectual property rights can enable enterprises to enjoy the market benefits brought by intellectual property rights, avoid the loss of intellectual property rights, avoid the risk of infringement and ensure the safety of enterprises.

2. Strengthening intellectual property rights can ensure the safety of enterprises' investment in R&D.. When conducting scientific research projects and independent R&D, enterprises can keep abreast of the status of intellectual property rights in their fields through the analysis and utilization of intellectual property information, so as to avoid infringing on the prior rights of others, resulting in "ineffective" R&D and wasting manpower, material resources and financial resources.

3. Strengthening the protection of intellectual property rights can increase the added value of products in the market. By producing and selling independent intellectual property products, enterprises can enhance their corporate image, enhance their market competitiveness, and even gain the right to speak in market pricing.

Strengthening the protection of intellectual property rights can improve the position of enterprises in joint ventures and business negotiations. Enterprises can use independent intellectual property rights to increase capital and share, pledge financing, license use, and establish industrial alliances. To improve their position in joint ventures and business negotiations.

Extended data:

trademark right

Refers to the exclusive right granted by the trademark authority to the trademark owner to apply for trademark protection as stipulated by national laws. A trademark is a commercial symbol used to distinguish goods and services from different sources. It consists of words, graphics, letters, numbers, three-dimensional symbols, color combinations and sounds, and the combination of the above elements. The acquisition of trademark rights in China must go through trademark registration procedures and implement the principle of first application. Trademark is a kind of identification mark in industrial activities, so the function of trademark right mainly lies in maintaining order in industrial activities, and the difference from patent right mainly lies in promoting industrial development.

patent protection

Refers to the invention-creation that has filed a patent application with the State Patent Office and passed the examination according to law, and granted the patent applicant the exclusive right to invention-creation within a specified time. According to China's patent law, there are three kinds of inventions, namely, inventions, utility models and designs. After a patent for invention and utility model is granted, the patentee enjoys exclusive rights to his invention and creation. No unit or individual may exploit the patent without the permission of the patentee, that is, it may not manufacture, use, promise to sell, sell or import the patented product for production and business purposes.

After the design patent is granted, no unit or individual may exploit the patent without the permission of the patentee, that is, may not manufacture, sell or import the patented product for production and business purposes. Without the permission of the patentee, the implementation of his patent will infringe his patent right and cause disputes, which shall be settled by the parties through consultation; Unwilling to negotiate or failing to do so, the patentee or interested party may bring a suit in a people's court or request the administrative department for patent affairs to handle it. Of course, there are exceptions to non-infringement, such as prior right to use and use for scientific research purposes. Patent protection adopts the protection mode of "two-way parallel and judicial guarantee" between judicial and administrative law enforcement. The administrative protection in this area takes the form of patrol law enforcement and joint law enforcement, focusing on cracking down on group infringement, repeated infringement and other phenomena that seriously disturb the patent legal environment.

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