Just look at the current Apple mobile phone and Samsung in Android. Apple always asks to ban the sale of a Samsung mobile phone on the grounds of patent.
After applying for a patent and obtaining a patent right, we can not only protect our own invention achievements and prevent the loss of scientific research achievements, but also obtain monopoly profits to make up for R&D investment, which is also conducive to scientific and technological progress and economic development. You can occupy the market space of new technologies and their products by applying for patents, and get corresponding economic benefits.
Patent right is the most important kind of intellectual property. As a kind of property, patent right can be traded in the market. The patent right is protected by the national patent law, and no unit or individual may use it without the consent of the patentee.
The market economy is fiercely competitive. The business world is like a battlefield. As we all know, everyone wants their products to occupy the market. In order to achieve this goal, they must apply for patents in time and protect their inventions and creations by national laws. Otherwise, anyone can use your inventions, anyone can copy your products, and lose the opportunity to occupy the market.
In addition, if you don't apply for a patent in time for your invention-creation, others will take your labor achievement as their own after knowing your invention-creation, and file a patent application for your achievement. When you get the patent right, they will in turn sue you for patent infringement to the court or the patent management authority, making the original inventor's labor achievement unusable and impossible to implement, putting the original inventor in a passive position of being beaten.
1. monopolize the market
As long as a product is granted a patent right, it is equivalent to having an exclusive right in the market. Without the permission of the patentee, no one may produce, sell, promise to sell, use or import the patented product. Therefore, patents play a very important role in occupying and protecting the market. After GATT formulated the Agreement on the Protection of Trade-related Intellectual Property Rights, this role became more prominent. It links patent protection with international trade and strengthens patent protection. For example, a copy company, because its XEPOX9 14 copier has patent protection, the sales volume of photocopiers in 10 increased by 20 times, and the profit increased by 17 times.
Prevent others from imitating new technologies and products developed by this enterprise.
Once a technology is patented, whether it is made public by publishing papers, attending academic conferences or exhibitions, or by other means, it is made public under the protection of law. Even if someone has learned or mastered this technology through the above channels, they can't use it casually after being granted the patent right. For example, there are 20 imitations of the SINCEII emulator developed by a research institute. Because there is no patent application, there is no way to restrict others from copying. Later, the Institute successfully re-studied the SINCEII simulator and applied for a patent before putting it on the market, which effectively prevented others from imitating it. High-tech products need patent protection, and low-tech products need patent protection even more, because low-tech products are more likely to be imitated, and enterprises should pay attention to them.