In recent days, the circle of friends and the intellectual property community have been discussing an article of Guangming Daily entitled "patent law amendment boosts China's patents from more to stronger".
Everyone's discussion focused on the following passage:
Wu RI Tu, a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, has found that there are many items, high standards and non-standard behaviors in the administrative fees and agency fees and intermediary fees collected by the agencies around the patent application. "Now in some patent application procedures, agency and intermediary have become a necessary link. This is extremely abnormal behavior. In addition, in the total cost of patent application, the agency fee exceeds the application fee, which should not be
Patent agency has become a very abnormal behavior in the process of patent application?
有代理和无代理各省国内发明专利申请驳回率
On the other hand, the average number of claims for authorized invention patents is still about 1 more than that of those without agents.
Comparison of characteristic numbers between agents and non agents
Feature degree is the number of technical features in patent claim 1 calculated by patentics intelligent semantic engine, which represents the protection scope of the claim. On the contrary, the smaller the feature degree, the greater the scope of patent protection. It is generally considered that smaller feature number is better.
By comparing the change of the characteristic degree of invention application and authorization in each year, we find that the characteristic degree of patent with agency has opened the gap with that of patent without agency in recent years, and there is an increasing trend. This not only shows that the agent can help the innovation subject get better protection scope, but also shows that the quality of patent agency in China is gradually improving.
The agency can obviously improve the quality of patent application in terms of technical layout (number of claims), scope of protection (number of technical features) and authorization rate. Or that sentence: professional things to professional people!
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