What measures can be taken in advance for unpatented technologies?

1. Technical secrets are required not to be known to the public (i.e. secrets), which can bring economic benefits and practicality. Therefore, confidentiality measures (i.e. confidentiality measures) are taken, among which confidentiality measures are an important guarantee to ensure that they are not known to the public, and it can also be said that confidentiality measures belong to the category of being unknown to the public. Inventions and utility models granted patent rights should be novel, creative and practical.

2. The term of protection of technical secrets is based on the term of confidentiality. As long as it is strictly kept secret and not replaced by new technology, the protection period is infinite. Technical secrets can exist indefinitely, so that the corresponding technology can always bring economic benefits to enterprises and always be in a competitive advantage, thus monopolizing the market. This is why it is favored by some people. The exclusive right to use a patent has a statutory period of protection. Article 42 of China's Patent Law stipulates that the term of the invention patent right is 20 years, and the term of the utility model patent right is 10 years, all of which are counted from the date of application. After the expiration, the patent right automatically disappears, and the corresponding technology enters the public domain, and anyone can use it at will.