Patent navigation

Definition 

        Patent navigation, based on the utilization of patent information resources and patent analysis, embeds patent application in industrial technology innovation, product innovation, organizational innovation and business model innovation, and is an exploratory work to guide and support the scientific development of industry. The main purpose of patent navigation is to explore the establishment of a working mechanism that deeply integrates patent information analysis and industrial operation decision, highly matches patent creation and industrial innovation ability, strongly guarantees patent layout to industrial competitive position, and effectively supports patent value realization to industrial operation efficiency, promotes the collaborative use of patents in industries, and cultivates the formation of a new model of patent navigation industrial development. 

        Patent navigation is a website that brings together the websites of intellectual property rights, patents, trademarks, copyrights and other related websites that are often used by people on a daily basis, and classifies them according to certain conditions. Patent navigation facilitates netizens to quickly find the patent search website they need, without having to remember the URLs of various websites, they can directly enter the desired website. Patent navigation generally also provides itself with common query tools, as well as email login, search engine, patent search portal, and in some cases, hot IP news and other functions. Patent navigation is an upgrade of the Web site navigation, with a unique advantage of academic field, to provide convenience for patent workers. It will also be an inevitable trend in the development of website navigation. 

Key tasks 

        (1) Establishing a working mechanism for the development of patent navigation industry. It strengthens the utilization of patent information resources and industrial patent analysis, grasps the core patent distribution in key areas of the industrial chain, clarifies the industrial competition pattern and determines the industrial development positioning with a global perspective. By establishing the industrial decision-making mechanism of deep integration and continuous interaction between patent analysis and industrial operation decision-making, systematically allocating advantageous resources, improving industrial innovation ability and enhancing competitive advantages, and continuously playing the navigational role of patents in industrial development. 

        (2) Optimization of patent creation in the industry. It will further implement the patent strategy in industrial development, further improve the patent creation system oriented by market demand and patent application; optimize the patent index in economic and scientific activities, improve the patent funding policy, and promote the improvement of patent quality; improve the comprehensive ability of enterprise intellectual property rights, guide market players to make scientific layout of patents, and form a patent reserve system matching with industrial development. 

        (3) Encourage the collaborative use of patents Guiding and supporting market players to attract and integrate patent resources by means of marketisation, clustering, alliance and collaboration, realizing centralized management and integrated application of patents; relying on patent resources, optimizing the allocation of policy resources, technical resources, human resources and financial resources, etc., to provide support for industrial development. Encourage patent resources as a link, build a patent utilization synergy body led by enterprises, with the participation of universities and institutes, financial institutions, patent service institutions and other parties, carry out collaborative innovation and collaborative patent utilization, realize resource sharing, benefit sharing, risk sharing and collaborative operation. 

        (4) Foster the development of patent operation industry It will guide market entities to set up patent operating agencies in accordance with the law, specializing in patent introduction, integration and secondary development, transfer and transformation; reserve and operate patents in key technology fields, form patent portfolios based on core patents and continuously optimize them, and carry out pledge financing, external licensing, investment in shares, standard setting and overseas rights protection activities. Guiding the construction of patent alliances, focusing on industries where patent disputes are frequent, patent barriers are prominent and domestic enterprises' technologies and patents are scattered, and centralizing the management and integrated use of patents in key technology areas. 

        (5) Improve the service system of patent application. Strengthen the innovation of institutional mechanisms, coordinate the construction of basic service platforms for patent application in key industries, and promote the establishment of an integrated patent application service system with a complete service chain. Foster the development of an open technology innovation service system, explore the establishment of an order-based patent research and development model; foster the development of a patent operation service system, focus on supporting the development of service models for the entire process from the generation of invention ideas, patent applications to the transfer and transformation of patent technology; foster the development of a patent investment and financing service system, establish an investment and financing mechanism adapted to the needs of small and medium-sized enterprises, promote patent investment and financing, securities, insurance, trust and other businesses The development of a patent trading and transfer service system will be fostered to promote the concentration and diffusion of patent technology. 

        (6) Building a policy support system for the development of patent navigation industry. Research and formulate various policies conducive to the development of patent navigation industry; integrate existing policy resources and use fiscal, financial, scientific and technological, trade and other policy levers to promote the use of patents and industrial development. On the basis of making full use of the existing funding channels, establish a stable financial investment growth mechanism and increase the support for patent application; further strengthen the guidance of financial and taxation policies to stimulate enterprises to increase the investment in patent application. Use risk compensation and other measures to encourage financial institutions to expand the scale of patent pledge loans; promote the process of securitization of intellectual property rights and support backbone enterprises in bond financing; fully utilize market mechanisms to encourage social capital to invest in innovative and entrepreneurial activities using patents. 

Implementation methods and steps 

◆ Build a number of experimental zones for patent navigation industry development for industrial clusters.

◆ Cultivating a number of pilot units for collaborative application of patents for the development of the industry.

◆ Cultivating a number of patent operation pilot enterprises for market players