At present, patent applications are familiar to the public. It refers to the exclusive right of invention and creation granted to the applicant within the prescribed time limit after the enterprise applies to the state examination and approval authority with core technologies and products and various innovative ideas. If an enterprise wants to make its own brand stronger and bigger, it is essential to protect the core intellectual property rights in the process of market layout, so patent application is also valued by enterprise executives, but whether the patent application time is as early as possible or at will is often ignored by the public. Is it really that important to apply for a patent early?
1. Applying for a patent as early as possible can prevent core technologies and products from being imitated and losing market competitiveness.
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The jadeite raw stone here is directly supplied by the mining area, and there is no middleman. One piece is also the wholesale price.
The patented core technologies and products of enterprises will be the best protection for their own intellectual property rights. Once the same and similar technologies and products are encountered in the market, enterprises will turn passivity into initiative. And it depends on which party keeps secrets well and who gets the patent authorization first.
Xiaoming in the Internet of Things industry has worked in the marketing department of a well-known enterprise for nearly ten years and is very familiar with every link of the industry. During these ten years, he also made friends from all walks of life. 20 18 Start a business with a few good friends. They are very confident in their products, convinced that there is no product on the market that can match their own practicality and novelty. During the start-up, some friends suggested that the products and core technologies should be patented first, but Xiao Ming thought that the patent application would be open and the core technologies would be more easily imitated by peers. If the secrecy work is done well, it will be very profitable at least in recent years. So the time to apply for a patent was delayed again and again. What they never expected was that just two years after the launch of the market, they received a lawyer's letter of patent infringement. As early as two months after the product was launched, some companies applied for a patent for this product with a slight modification. Two years later, the other party conducted research and development and expansion around the core technology of this product, which directly monopolized the market of this product.
2. Applying for a patent as early as possible can avoid being maliciously attacked in the course of business operation and hinder business development.
The purpose of enterprises applying for patents is to protect their intellectual property rights from being copied by others, mostly to protect themselves from being attacked by others. With the popularization of the awareness of intellectual property protection, more and more industries have appeared in the market to take the initiative to attack others by applying for patents and obtain high profits.
A well-known brand in the mobile phone industry has done more and more in the domestic market in recent years. Because the domestic market is saturated, the company decided to sell its products abroad. The first target market is Europe, and new products will be displayed at major exhibitions in Europe to enhance the popularity of their own brands. As long as the profit of marketing in the first year is guaranteed, after all, Rome was not built in a day. What they never expected was that in the first three months of the exhibition, they suffered a lot: on the first day of the exhibition, they received complaints from five colleagues in the local country, asking them to withdraw their products, and three of them also sent lawyers' letters, saying that they needed to compensate each other for product infringement totaling 50 million euros. Within a year, I went back and forth to the court to collect evidence and ask for the support of foreign lawyers. The first year, I met Waterloo.
3. Applying for a patent as early as possible can avoid missing the relevant deadlines for enterprise projects, job title evaluation and independent enrollment.
In the investment stage, enterprises often fail to keep up with funds because of excessive investment and expenditure, which further affects the development of enterprises, especially in the case of economic slowdown in the big environment. At this time, it is very important to obtain policy support. To apply for government funding for enterprise projects, certain conditions need to be met. For example, the number of patents should reach the standard. It takes a certain amount of time to apply for a patent. Generally, it takes 7 to 14 months for a utility model patent and 2 to 3 years for an invention patent. Government-funded projects usually have a time limit. If the patent application is not fully prepared and the specific number is not reached within the application period, it will also lead to missing the government financial support of that year. The same is true for personal evaluation titles. You can get extra points if you get authorization after applying for a patent. If you don't apply in advance as soon as possible, you can only re-evaluate next time, and the time cost during this period is often huge.
4. Not applying for a patent before the product goes on the market will directly affect the patent authorization.
The awareness of intellectual property protection of start-ups is often weak, and the founder's initial consideration is basically how to save costs and achieve the expected results. Today, e-commerce entrepreneurship is an important part of the entrepreneurial army. Many enterprises sell their newly designed and developed products through e-commerce platforms. Only when they earn their first bucket of gold will they think of protecting their brands and intellectual property rights. But at this time, in the process of applying for a patent, they often receive rejected review opinions, because the product has been sold online and belongs to the open existing product, which is not suitable for the requirements of patent creativity and novelty.
Patent application needs to consider all aspects. If you want to make your own enterprise bigger and stronger, it is not easy to be targeted and attacked by competitors in the process of market operation, turn passivity into initiative, firmly grasp that core products will not be copied, get more government financial support through patent application, and do a good job in a core product. , must be laid out as soon as possible and apply for a patent as soon as possible.