What are the common patent layout patterns?

(1) Cluster patent layout: Enterprises arrange patents for alternative technologies of the same technology to prevent competitors from realizing the technology with other schemes, thus effectively protecting their products.

(2) Galaxy patent layout: Enterprises can effectively prevent competitors from applying this technology in different fields by arranging "basic patents of a technical scheme+extended patents generated by applications in various fields".

(3) Chain patent layout: An enterprise provides a complete set of technical solutions for the industrialization of a certain technology or product, and comprehensively arranges the upstream and downstream supporting patents to monopolize the entire industrial chain.

(4) Netted patent layout: Enterprises make layout through different types of patent applications to protect core products. When designing a patent application, an enterprise should consider how to make a layout from the aspects of technical importance, objective attributes and the collocation of various protection types.