10 started his career. At that time, I was a little white who knew nothing about patents. I began to study patents with great anxiety. Now I have some superficial understanding of patents, so I have a whim to record and summarize my experiences on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the National Day, hoping to bring some help to friends who want to enter this industry.
First, about the daily work status of patent agents
The following is my personal situation, not all of it. Usually I feel a lot of pressure, time is never enough, and things can never be done. After I arrive at the company every day, I basically sit from morning till night. If there are many emergencies, the brain may run at high speed for several hours, thinking that drinking saliva is a waste of time. Before and after the long vacation, it's like fighting a war. I try my best to meet all kinds of deadlines, have no time for sports and leisure, and always want to work overtime on weekends to relax my life next week. Of course, different agencies have different systems, which leads to different working conditions of agents. Generally speaking, foreign-related agents are in a hurry, and the company does have a lot of business, so basically colleagues are in this state.
Second, about the income of patent agents.
Hard work can naturally bring rewards. As for whether such a return and pay are in an appropriate proportion, it actually depends on the standard in one's mind. Naturally, it can't be compared with foreign countries, but it belongs to the upper-middle level among the students who graduated at the same time in China (only in the mechanical industry).
Three, about the daily work of patent agents and its importance
In short, I have to face some complicated things every day:
1, the form management information is very lengthy: patent application number, patent name, application date, patentee, inventor, agency, publication date, authorization date and payment information, which leads to a lot more information in this form management.
2. Intellectual property management is complicated because there are many patents, trademarks and software programs. When an enterprise owns a number of intellectual property rights, it needs to deal with various affairs and need convenient ways to improve efficiency.
3. The update of intellectual property information is not timely.
With the increase in the number of patents and trademarks, it is very likely that the table will be updated today and the patent status will be changed tomorrow. Enterprises adopt passive updating, which is lagging behind and easy to miss.
4. There are many intellectual property cases, such as official fees, agency fees, annual fees, etc., and it is easy to make mistakes without special reminders; The time of case defense is tight, and it is easy to expire, which easily leads to the failure of case procedures and the loss of intangible assets.
5. The increase in quantity leads to untimely maintenance and is not easy to find; The data information of each department is not connected, so it can't work well together.
6. Intellectual property management personnel do not know enough about the content of intellectual property rights, and are not creative enough in writing manuscripts, patents, trademarks, soft works, etc., and the quality is not high.
7. The flow of intellectual property managers causes the lack of data and information.
8. Many enterprise intellectual property management personnel are not full-time personnel, and their exposure to intellectual property rights is short, which makes enterprise intellectual property management not systematic and professional, and easily leads to insufficient enterprise innovation and intellectual property management level.
9, unable to automatically receive official communications, intelligent analysis of communications, does not support online preview function, limited viewing times.
To sum up, the patented project is not as fragrant as it looks. . However, if there are difficulties, there must be breakthroughs, and I occasionally come into contact with Qi Fuyun's patent management system. The system has the characteristics of clear interface, simple operation, no need to face complicated data tables and automatic processing. Suddenly I felt that I had worked hard for several years and was finally replaced by a system. Sadly, why can I say that I can replace it? The following mainly introduces its functions:
1. Official docking management: It can seamlessly dock with the cpc official client through self-developed plug-ins, automatically receive official documents, intelligently analyze important information such as official set dates such as official document deadline and payment deadline, dock with the official system for archiving, task flow triggering, official expenses generation and deadline generation, internal case information review, support the extraction of various documents such as PDF, TIF, XML and DOC, and support online.
2. The whole process case management system includes project application management, patent management, trademark management and copyright management. Among them, the intellectual property management system provides various types of management (patents, trademarks and copyrights), including the internal task interaction process of strict disciplines such as case management, case matching management, manuscript review management, submission management and annual fee management, and provides standardized case management and perfect system data triggering, automation and time-saving periodic report interaction.
3. Triple deadline control of process tasks is adopted: node deadline, customer deadline and official fee limit deadline are monitored and reminded in stages, providing multiple guarantees to ensure the smooth progress and timely completion of cases, and key reminders can be set for cases that are about to expire to avoid the problem of overdue cases.
4. Comprehensively manage technological innovation, technical scheme and patent information, and standardize the strategic layout of patent applications, domestic and foreign patent applications, PCT patent applications and other management. Control the whole life cycle of patent application, examination, authorization, implementation and termination, and centrally manage all patent-related affairs? Documents, fees and deadlines, etc.
2. Widely used in enterprises, research institutes and universities, it is an essential tool to improve the efficiency of intellectual property work, enhance the level of intellectual property management, and promote technological innovation and core competitiveness of enterprises.
3. Manage the whole process of patent application, manage the complete life cycle of patent, automatically remind the task time limit, and automatically monitor the application fee and annual fee. I am going to apply the template of the letter and write the Word document automatically.
After reading these functions, do you think that patent agents usually do too many things, which makes them feel cumbersome? What tedious things have been solved by this software, which simplifies the tedious things, but it is a sad thing for a person who has been climbing movies for 10 years, and it is also the savior of this industry. Friends in need can go to Qifuyun official website to have a look.