1. Current situation. At present, the profession of patent agents is polarized. In highly specialized large law firms and agencies, patent agents have high standards, high incomes, high-quality client resources, continuous improvement in capabilities, and healthy development. However, there are still a large number of low-end services in the market, and the quality varies. Many cases come from not real demands for innovation protection, but from demands for the number of patents required for local funding or evaluation of high-tech enterprises. In low-end patents, Agents are faced with low-quality case sources, it is difficult to improve their capabilities, and the nature of their work is becoming more labor-intensive.

2. Prospect. The prospects are promising, but polarization will continue to increase. Because currently the main patent applications come from Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu. Other provinces are far from rising and have huge market space. China's development must take the path of transformation and upgrading, which will inevitably involve a lot of technological innovation and design innovation. But in the future, the polarization of patent agents will continue, and low-end agency services will become increasingly difficult. On the one hand, policy benefits such as state funding are unsustainable; on the other hand, the customer base obtained through information asymmetry will gradually disappear after entering the Internet era. Moreover, the Internet will revolutionize many process businesses. Therefore, if you want to develop well after entering this industry, you need to develop along a professional route. This means that you should not think about just taking care of your younger brothers and not working on your own after a long time. The direction of future development is to work on your own. .

3. Cross-border development of patent agents. This is an additional topic. In fact, in intellectual property services, patent agency is only part of the business. In the long run, if patent agents can provide further services in addition to traditional application, invalidation, litigation and other services, Patent consulting, patent system construction and other services will have stronger competitiveness.