Xx company has been developing in a healthy and rapid direction. In addition to grasping the pulse of the market and formulating the market strategy correctly, it is more important to persist in scientific and technological innovation and actively and accurately use the intellectual property system according to the characteristics of the international household products market, which has laid a solid foundation for the development and growth of enterprises.
Our company is a well-known enterprise in the domestic household products industry, with many products and well-known brands. In order to protect the legitimate rights and interests of the company from illegal businesses, the company pays special attention to patent protection and strives to do a good job in patent protection management in every link. Our company is a high-tech enterprise with strong R&D capability, mainly developing high-end household cleaning products with independent intellectual property rights, and has achieved good results in patent technology development, patent application, maintenance, abandonment and patent asset operation, which are summarized as follows:
First, enterprises have a good patent foundation work, and patents have a significant role in promoting the development of enterprises.
The company set up a patent work leading group in X, with the general manager as the leader and personally in charge of R&D work. Technology Department organizes R&D personnel to implement key issues and actively participates in enterprise development, production, operation, sales and foreign negotiations. The administrative department is responsible for organizing the declaration of all kinds of patents, communicating with the superior scientific and technological authorities, organizing patent affairs such as patent bonus distribution, and hiring xxxx patent firm to represent the company's patent affairs for a long time. The finance department is responsible for the remittance and payment of patent fees and the renewal of annual patent fees. At the same time, the company has seven R&D personnel to cooperate with the patent work, which makes the company's effective patent ownership soar. The job responsibilities of patent work were clarified, confidentiality agreements were signed with relevant personnel, and patent incentive measures were implemented, which laid a solid foundation for the smooth development of patent work in our company.
Therefore, our company's patent work can be summarized in the following words: strong patent research and development strength, complete patent management institutions, clear patent work responsibilities, high enthusiasm for patent application, and obvious promotion of patents to enterprise development.
Two, the patent management system is sound and the implementation is in good condition.
Patent is an important asset of an enterprise, an important form of enterprise management and an important competitive tool of an enterprise. Patent is also an important part of enterprise investment management and an integral part of enterprise development strategy. Therefore, patent management is a very important link in enterprise development.
Xx company deeply realized that enterprises should protect their legitimate rights and interests from infringement and monopolization of the existing market, and seize the potential market in order to gain a larger market share, which largely depends on whether they can speed up the improvement of the patent management system, and speed up the invention, application, implementation and improvement of patent protection capabilities. The development of enterprises is inseparable from the development of patents, which are more conducive to the expansion of economic interests of enterprises. The number of patents owned by an enterprise and the use of patents largely reflect its position and prospect in the market competition. Because patents play an extraordinary role in the development of enterprises:
1) patent can be used as a defensive weapon to defeat opponents and protect market interests;
2) Patents can be used as a shield to protect R&D, business and market investment;
3) Patents can create wealth value and attract capital investment;
4) Apply for a patent or create many use opportunities.
In terms of patent work management system, the company has also formulated enterprise patent work management system, training management system, patent confidentiality system, patent information utilization, reward management system and file management system. The above patent management system is well implemented.
Three. Intellectual property management
In terms of intellectual property management, the number of independent intellectual property patents of the company reached 84, and invalid patents were fully utilized. On patent inventions, the company always advocates the principle that whoever invents benefits, and rewards those scientific and technological personnel who are willing to use their brains and study hard. In terms of patent maintenance and abandonment, the company decides to maintain and abandon according to the sales of patented products, domestic and foreign markets and the judicial protection of patents. In terms of patent implementation, the current patent implementation rate is 65,438+0,000%, patented products sell well at home and abroad, and the share of patented technology in the research and development of new products and technologies is about 75%. The characteristics and functions of the patent system have been fully applied in the production and operation of enterprises. In terms of patent confidentiality system and file management system, the company signed employee confidentiality contract and non-competition agreement with R&D personnel to ensure the smooth progress of patent application under the premise of confidentiality. After successful patent application, there is a complete patent file management system, including patent product photos, application date, authorization date, payment date, validity period, borrowing registration, etc. At present, all the patents used are independent patents. Because of the normal retrieval of valid, invalid and invalid patents at home and abroad, and the appointment of "xx Lee Office" as the patent strategy research institution of our company, Mr. Yuan Zhongwei, the liaison, has done his best. Therefore, our company has not infringed on the intellectual property rights of others in the past three years, nor has any lawsuit occurred.
Patent publicity and financial support: In order to strengthen patent work, the company invests a lot of money in patent application, maintenance, patent implementation, patent publicity and training every year, which is included in the company's annual budget and charged separately. XX years spent on technology development costs xxx million yuan, such as: equipment investment xxx million yuan; The investment in R&D room and patent showroom is more than RMB xxx; Patent product mold fee, patent application fee xxx million yuan and so on. Due to the timely arrival of R&D expenses, timely publicity of patent knowledge and strong awareness of patent protection of R&D personnel, the patent R&D stage did not cause any leakage or loss to the company. Patent workers have clear responsibilities and strict management. In the process of patent application, there is no phenomenon that the patent that should be applied for has not been applied, nor has it been found that the patent that should be protected failed to be protected, resulting in losses.
Four, the company's patent ownership:
Our company is called the first patent owner in Fenghua by the competent department. As of April XX, the company has 84 authorized patents, including 25 utility model patents and 59 design patents. At present, there are 17 patents being filed, of which 2 invention patents have passed the preliminary examination, 2 utility model patents and 13 appearance patents have been filed for acceptance. Patent ownership is in a leading position in the same industry. The company has strong product research and development capabilities and patent creation and invention capabilities, and has a group of professional technical developers. Can carry out cad and pro/engineer three-dimensional modeling design for products, making products beautiful and elegant, quick and convenient to use, and well received by users.
Verb (abbreviation of verb) The enterprise has a good business performance:
The company's annual sales in XX is xxx million yuan; Among them, exports account for about 85%. The total profit and tax is xx million yuan, which has been profitable for three consecutive years. The company mainly produces and sells: all kinds of mops, vacuum cleaners, window brushes, microfiber products and other daily necessities. Among them, the annual output value of patented products is xx million yuan, the sales of patented products account for 83% of the total sales of the enterprise, and the planned sales in xx year is XX million yuan. With the continuous improvement of people's living standards in today's society, the consumer market of household products has great potential and the company's operating performance is good. XX was recognized as "Ningbo Patent Pilot Enterprise".
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Seven, the patent award
Patent award: The company has formulated and implemented the patent award management system. In terms of linking patents with bonuses, the company flexibly uses various measures to encourage and support employees to make inventions. Respect employees' non-service inventions and actively help employees apply for patents for non-service inventions. In order to give full play to the enthusiasm of scientific and technical personnel, the company stipulates that the invention patent will be awarded XX yuan, and the utility model patent or design patent will be awarded to 500 yuan. The cumulative patent bonus for XX years is 5000 yuan. So that the patent work has embarked on the road of benign development.
Eight, patent capital investment
In terms of patent R&D investment, the company plans to allocate 3 million yuan of patent funds this year, increasing year by year, specifically for patent application, patent maintenance, new product research and development, equipment purchase and so on. The growth rate of independent patents is determined to be between 15-20%, and the growth rate of patent publicity and training expenses is determined to be around 15%. The number of patent applications for new products and the number of patent authorizations are used as the performance evaluation of R&D institutions, and R&D personnel are urged to apply for patents for new technologies and new products with patent conditions suitable for patent application as soon as possible. For products that are competitive in the international market, timely apply to the state for foreign-related patents, and their products are protected by intellectual property rights.
Nine, learning and training patent knowledge
Patent work is different from ordinary technical work, which requires employees not only to have good patent awareness, but also to have excellent business level, not only to know how to protect patent intellectual property rights, but also to know how to use patent intellectual property rights to create wealth and profits for the company. Therefore, patent knowledge training is very important for enterprises.
Xx Company incorporated the patent intellectual property strategy into the long-term development strategy of the enterprise, increased the investment in patent personnel training and education, and adopted various forms to improve the professional level and comprehensive quality of patent staff. One is to popularize patent knowledge through special lectures, knowledge contests and other activities; The other is to send outstanding patent workers to universities at home and abroad purposefully and in a planned way to learn about the latest development of intellectual property rights at home and abroad and improve the management level of intellectual property rights of enterprises; Third, strengthen the connection between enterprises and patent offices, and entrust Ningbo Chengyuan Patent Office to train intellectual property personnel according to the actual situation of enterprises to enhance their ability to use, manage and protect patents. Fourth, in the process of new product development, we should track patent information, conduct market research, correct R&D ideas in time, know patent literature regularly, and understand the international development trend of the industry and the dynamic changes of new technologies and new products of domestic and foreign competitors. The company conducts a patent knowledge assessment and business level appraisal for patent workers every year, and selects and rewards outstanding patent workers.
In March of xx, the company invited Yuan Zhongwei from XX Patent Office to conduct 4 hours of patent retrieval, application and infringement training for 23 people from 7 departments including technology, quality control, business, administration and finance. Participate in the patent knowledge training organized by the Municipal Science and Technology Bureau twice in XX years. Through training, the technical department has enhanced the patent research and development ability and accelerated the patent development speed.
Ten, learn the law to protect rights
Apply patent law to protect patent right. Company patent personnel can flexibly use various patent protection measures. For example, when the company's business department set up a booth in the Canton Fair in September, XX, a merchant took a new product developed by our company and insisted that our product infringed his patent right and claimed 500,000 yuan. Just when they were deadlocked, the company sent them a patent certificate in time, and the other party was speechless in front of the certificate. To this end, the company will bring a large stack of patent certificates for new products to participate in the Canton Fair twice a year to achieve the purpose of timely rights protection. Through the implementation of their own research and development of new product patents, enterprises have tasted the sweetness. The sales momentum of patented products in XX is quite strong, with sales exceeding 60 million. At present, all kinds of new products issued at home and abroad are mostly protected by patents. At the same time, the company also strictly abides by the patent law, and there has been no infringement of others' patent rights in the past three years.
In short, since the implementation of the patent law, enterprises have tasted the sweetness and individuals have benefited, and various patent applications are being known by more and more scientific and technological personnel. Therefore, our company's determination to declare as a "patent demonstration enterprise" in Zhejiang Province is firm, and we hope that the higher-level government departments can strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights, give the enterprises applying for patents the maximum preferential policies, support enterprises to realize patent industrialization as soon as possible, and keep the momentum of healthy development.