If I ask you what era it is now, there will be a lot of answers: Internet age, information age, virtual age and knowledge economy age

From online celebrity's papi sauce to logical thinking, from Zhihu to all kinds of knowledge payment, we can easily see that it is the knowledge economy age

In the knowledge economy age, intellectual property rights exist.

When it comes to protecting our intellectual property rights, we should talk about a word that seems to have nothing to do with ordinary people: patent

In most people's impression, the word patent is very far away from us, as if only some famous historical figures such as Edison, Watt, Wright Brothers, Newton and so on would be associated with patents.

Actually, it's not.

In the previous article, we mentioned Zhang Jing, an inventor in the nursing field. More than 1 national utility model patents and 6 national invention patents have been declared, and more than 1 utility model patents have been successfully transferred. Realize the realization of technology and knowledge.

Wang Jin, director of the Second Department of General Surgery of Zhuzhou Central Hospital, successfully invented and applied for a patent —— Disposable Tubular Viscera Bundle Puller, which successfully realized the transformation of scientific and technological achievements to Changzhou Weike Medical Equipment Co., Ltd..

Another example is Feng Haitao from the Department of Dermatology of Chongqing Three Gorges Central Hospital, an ordinary attending physician, who has devoted himself to research with his amateur knowledge, and has made dozens of inventions, of which 11 have obtained national patent certificates, and 2 inventions are being publicized in official website, China National Intellectual Property Administration.

as you can see, many patents are gradually formed in a lot of clinical work and practical work summary. A small improvement and a new idea can be patented.

with the idea, can the improved products sit back and relax when they come out? Wrong! If you don't apply for a patent in time, you may become someone else's wedding dress.

Tu Youyou

In the medical field, the news that Tu Youyou won the Nobel Prize finally lifted the spirits of TCM, and at the same time, the national pride of Chinese people soared.

However, in the intellectual property circle, the lack of intellectual property protection system has led to the fall of artemisinin patents, which has also caused people to sigh. If Chinese people have more valuable inventions, should they protect their own patents and stop letting hooligans "reap the benefits of fishermen"?

The Nobel Prize Committee in Stockholm, Sweden held a press conference to award the 215 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Tu Youyou, a pharmacist from China, and two other scientists, william campbell and Satoshi Omura, in recognition of their achievements in the treatment and research of parasitic diseases. Tu Youyou's award-winning patent related to artemisinin, a malaria drug, fell into the hands of Novartis, while China, as the main producing area of artemisinin raw materials, can only get meager profits from providing raw materials, while the former enjoys the rolling financial resources of patent monopoly.

What is even more ironic is that even the trademark "Tu Youyou" has been registered by others. In 211, Tu Youyou won the Nobel Prize "Wind Vane" lasker medical research awards, and then "professional trademark registrants" targeted her name. Through trademark inquiry on intellectual property management platform Zhikubao, it was found that in 212, the year after she won the prize, the trademark of "Tu Youyou" was applied for registration by natural person Yu Xiaozhi and Suzhou Xiashi Glasses Co., Ltd. under the fifth and ninth categories of international trademark classification respectively.

Let's take a look at the process of medical negative patent application first:

Step 1: The inventor arranges innovative ideas and prepares technical disclosure

Technical disclosure can determine the effectiveness of patent application. Generally including the following contents:

1. Invention patent request

2. Abstract

3. Abstract drawings (if applicable)

4. Description

5. Description drawings (if any)

6. Claims

Step 2: Patent search

Pass patent search.

Step 3: Sign an intellectual property service agreement

Sign an agreement with a third-party intellectual property service enterprise, and the enterprise will help the applicant complete the subsequent application.

step 4: the patent agent will review the technical disclosure and communicate with the inventor to confirm that the materials are correct; The agent writes the application documents and reports them to the Patent Office after being confirmed by the customer.

The patent agent confirms the accuracy of the contents to be expressed by the inventor according to the technical disclosure (it may need to communicate with the inventor many times), and then starts to write the application documents.

Step 5: Patent Office accepts and conducts patent examination

After the patent office accepts the invention patent, the main examination procedures include: preliminary examination, publication, substantive examination, etc.

Step 6: Revise and make corrections by the applicant

During the review, if defects are found in the application documents, the examiner will ask the applicant to modify or make corrections, and the applicant can also take the initiative to propose amendments within the specified time to overcome various defects in the application documents.

Step 7: Announcement of Authorization

After examination, the patent office officially grants the patent right and makes an announcement.

Although it seems that there are only seven steps, it will take another one to two months to re-submit materials or supplement materials if there are some problems in these links. You know, even if everything runs smoothly and normally, it will take about two years. Many people are discouraged.

Although it is tedious, for doctors and nurses, owning their own invention patents can not only protect their own creativity, but also play a role in evaluating professional titles, and may even be transformed into products to obtain rich economic benefits.

Therefore, it is particularly important to apply for a patent in time and find a reliable patent agency.

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