What does an intellectual property agency do?

Intellectual property agency refers to the act of handling intellectual property affairs on behalf of the parties, mainly including domestic and foreign patent agency and trademark agency, but also includes copyright registration agency, integrated circuit layout design registration agency and other intellectual property categories of agency behavior.

Patent agency mainly includes: patent application, patent invalidation, patent litigation, patent strategy layout, patent counseling and other aspects of business.

Trademark agency mainly includes: trademark application, trademark registration, trademark dispute and opposition, trademark defense and other business contents.

Expanded Information:

Patent agency's patent agency of the quality of the patent agency is high or low, from a large extent determines the quality of China's patent applications. Therefore, improving the quality of patent agency will play a pivotal role in improving the quality of China's patent applications. At present, there is no fixed and unified model for measuring the quality of patent

One is whether the description and understanding of the inventive concept of the technical program involved is accurate and appropriate. Because the core of the patent application is a technical invention concept, therefore, the accurate grasp of the technical program itself and appropriate description is to ensure the quality of the patent under the premise of the description and pure scientific research perspective of the technical description of the difference.

From the scientific research point of view, the description of the technical program should only be the technology itself, while the technical program in the patent application document is based on the program, combined with the statutory description stipulated in the Patent Law, according to the technology itself in the legal level to define an appropriate, matching the scope of legal protection.

This requires an in-depth understanding of its technical program, taking into account the prospects for future development in its technical field, so that the patent right can stand the test of time and technological development.

The second is the stability of the patent application right itself. The purpose of applying for a patent is not only to obtain a patent, but also to obtain a stable scope of protection that matches the conception of its technical invention, therefore, the stability of the right is also an important measure of the quality of the patent.

To obtain a high degree of stability of the patent right, we need to be in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Patent Law, in full deliberation and in-depth understanding of the technical program on the basis of the accurate use of the legal language and technical terminology, and comprehensively grasp the core technology of the technical program itself, to write a patent application document with accurate technical content, clear logic, and a complete scope of protection, so as to obtain a relatively stable and appropriate scope of protection of the patent right. Patent rights.

Thirdly, it should withstand the test of industry technology development and legal proceedings. As a civil right granted by law, patent right is a property right carried by technical program, and its right exists on the basis of whether the technical invention concept meets the premise of innovativeness.

Any innovative technology is inevitably limited by the historical development conditions and technological constraints at that time, therefore, in writing a patent application, the technical program, as far as possible, from the horizontal and vertical, the connotation and extension of the future development trend of the industry's technology.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Intellectual Property Agents

People's Daily Online - Quality of representation is the foundation of patent agencies