In short, patent mining is to extract technological innovations and technical solutions with patent application and protection value from innovation achievements.
How to dig deep into the value of patented technological achievements is a difficult problem between patents and enterprises, so as to understand how to make enterprises "make money properly" through the five-step method of patent mining.
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First of all, technicians who are deeply involved in research and development in a certain field should explain the technological achievements and explain what they think is innovative, rather than asking about specific technological achievements. Remember that technicians should not only explain the main innovations but ignore some details, because the core innovations in the whole technological achievements are the core patents that patentees want to capture;
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Technical achievements are usually divided into core parts and secondary parts. Patent personnel should take the core part as the starting point, combine the technological innovation collected step by step, and further carry out comprehensive and orderly patent mining. In this process, patent personnel should distinguish the levels of innovation and rationally lay out core patents;
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If you can't distinguish the core and secondary parts of technological achievements, you can choose a single direction for patent mining, and you can follow various ways, such as space, from input to output, from internal to external, and choose the most suitable direction. Every step should be carefully checked to ensure that no innovation of technological achievements will be missed.
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In the process of R&D, there is no plan to finally incorporate technological achievements, and technological innovations have not yet been discovered. Patent personnel should guide technicians, and still consider whether to apply for patents for innovations that have not been adopted in technological achievements. Because they are also the crystallization of the wisdom of technicians, paying attention to them can greatly enrich the patent portfolio, and its value is no less than that of the patents applied for by the adopted scheme;
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Patent personnel will sort out the technological innovation points excavated in the first four steps, and discuss with technicians for each technological innovation point to find an expansion plan, which is of great significance for enriching specific embodiments, improving the level of claims and supporting independent claims to obtain greater protection scope.