In fact, people who hold this view do not realize how important patents are to their own companies.
Especially for R&D companies, patents are essential.
First of all, SMEs need to protect themselves with patents and make a protective cover for themselves. Small and medium-sized enterprises are characterized by short establishment time, small scale of operation and insufficient funds. Faced with these difficulties, if you don't have your own special products or technologies at the beginning of your business, it is easy to have fierce homogenization competition, fail to grasp the initiative in time, and fall into a passive competition situation. When you have certain technology, you need to protect the technical scheme in time to prevent the other party from infringing on its own technical secrets and causing economic losses. At the same time, patents are also a good publicity highlight for enterprises. If an enterprise has its own patent group, it can often gain the trust of the other party when cooperating with customers. In addition, many companies' products need to be exported, and whether they have patent rights determines the scope of product export.
Secondly, patents are an important indicator when SMEs declare projects. When applying for innovation funds, high-tech enterprise identification, special funds and other projects, the number of patents is often required. If you can have your own patent group before applying, you won't get cold feet. Of course, the value of patent is not as simple as project declaration. According to the relevant laws and regulations, the patent right can be invested and financed after evaluation.
In 20 12, Wuhan Grammy Company reached hundreds of millions of yuan in financing loans through patent rights, setting the highest amount of domestic patent pledge loans. Moreover, as a part of the company's capital, the patent right can be transferred, traded and licensed for implementation, thus collecting patent fees.
Thirdly, for the problem of patent fees that SMEs are worried about, in addition to delaying the payment of fees when applying, all local intellectual property offices have patent subsidy policies after authorization. According to the reduced full application fee, the application fee for utility model and design is more than 500 yuan from application to authorization, and the application fee for invention is more than 1500 yuan from application to authorization, and the authorization subsidy can completely offset the application fee. As for the future annual fee, it is authorized to be reduced or exempted for the first three years. Although it has increased year by year since the fourth year, it will cost a few thousand yuan at most for an enterprise. If you don't want to pay, you can give up your rights or transfer them. Author: Zeng Author: Beijing Qingyihua Patent Office Wuhan Branch