Patent Application
What is a patent?
The patent owner can exercise the legal rights granted by the patent, and others cannot manufacture, use, distribute, sell, or import or export related inventions without the consent of the patent owner. If you think your patented invention has the opportunity to bring you commercial benefits, please apply for a patent for the invention as soon as possible to prevent others from using your invention for profit (plagiarism without permission, or deconstructing the patent by reverse engineering methods) Product/program).
*Please note that before submitting an application for patent registration anywhere, please do not disclose the invention publicly, because publishing and disclosing the invention will cause the applied patent to lose its novelty and cannot be effectively registered. Therefore, in order to protect the novelty of the invention, we recommend that Before the invention is disclosed, apply for patent registration for the invention as soon as possible. If such disclosure is necessary, a confidentiality agreement should be established to ensure that the relevant invention is disclosed and loses its novelty.
"Patent Cooperation Treaty"
According to the Patent Cooperation Treaty, the aim is to file a single application for an invention, that is, to apply for patent protection for the invention at the same time in each country in many countries, simplifying the application of patents to multiple countries one by one through the country. Pattern.
However, at a later stage when an international patent application is filed, consideration must be given to deciding which treaty contracting states the international application designates to continue to apply for patents, and requesting the application to enter the national phase of the contracting states, so as to implement patent protection in that country. If the international patent application specifies China, the applicant can choose to apply for protection of a transcription standard patent or short-term patent in Hong Kong after the application enters the national phase of China.
Benefits of applying for a patent
Exclusive
Obtain monopoly power,
Get a higher profit return
Intangible assets
Can be sold, transferred, pledged, and evaluated
Prevent theft
Prevent others from imitating new technologies and products developed by the company, with legal protection effect
Small wins big
Improve visibility and get government support
Monopolize the market
Use patented technology as a defense shield,
Expand market share
Go international
Assist in the development of foreign markets
Patent classification
Three types of patents:
Patent:
New technical solutions proposed to protect products, methods or their improvements
Utility model patents:
Protect the shape, structure or combination of physical products for practical and novel technical solutions
Appearance design patent:
Protect the shape, pattern or combination of products, and the combination of color, shape, and pattern to make new designs for industrial applications
The most important conditions for applying for a patent
Practicality
"Useful"-can be practically applied in industry or industry
Novelty
"New"-new features that have not been discovered by existing technologies
creativity
"Non-obvious"-prominent substantive features and significant progress that are not obvious to a person with general knowledge in the technical field