The patent agent certificate contains a lot of gold. The patent agent's specific job is to write patent legal documents for the applicant, answer examination opinions, and help the patentee to handle court proceedings in case of disputes. If a foreign-related patent agent is involved, the patent agent will also translate the foreign materials into Chinese and make amendments according to the patent law. At present, most domestic enterprises have not applied for patents. In the increasingly fierce competition environment, the competition between Chinese and foreign enterprises for intellectual property talents has also begun to heat up. Enterprises begin to need patent agents to declare some important technological achievements in time. When enterprises find that someone is using, manufacturing or selling their own patented products, which threatens their own interests, they need patent agents to assist in safeguarding rights. Therefore, patent agents are playing an increasingly important role in enterprises.
The content examination of patent agent certificate includes three examination subjects: patent legal knowledge (total score 150), relevant legal knowledge (total score 100) and patent agency practice (total score 150).
The examination is a closed-book examination and adopts computerized examination method.
Employment prospects of patent agents From the national situation, of the existing 7.8 million enterprises, only 2,000 have independent intellectual property rights, 99% have not applied for patents, and as many as 60% of domestic enterprises do not even have their own trademarks. The media survey of Chengdu and Mianyang, two national high-tech zones, shows that 80% of local enterprises do not have a trained patent worker.
The competition between Chinese and foreign enterprises for intellectual property talents has also begun to heat up, and the role of intellectual property talents in enterprises is becoming more and more important. On the one hand, some important patent applications of enterprises need to be completed in time through patent agents. On the other hand, when an enterprise finds a patent that poses a great threat to itself in the competition, or when a competing enterprise files a patent lawsuit against it, it needs a patent agent to safeguard its own rights and interests. In recent years, some enterprises suffering from intellectual property rights have begun to introduce a considerable number of intellectual property talents. The intellectual property departments of multinational companies such as Siemens, IBM, Intel and Microsoft are all hundreds of people, and Sony has more than 400 intellectual property professionals.