In July, the invention of the king was embarrassing: most patents were invalid because of the annual fee.
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Dong Lantian's family has dozens of patent license probationer Liu Yule
in the 70 year old folk inventor Dong Lantian's bookshelf, dozens of patent licenses neatly placed, both the invention patent certificate, and the utility model patent certificate, involving manufacturing, construction, transportation, energy, metallurgy. Gold, military, mechanical, etc. Since Dong Lantian retired in 2004, his personal application to the national patent office has 285 patents, of which 70% are authorized, however, only more than 40 have been successfully converted and the conversion rate is less than 25%.
the invention of remolding the stove, with the national patent office authorized
in 2004, Dong Lantian, 58, retired from the factory. At one visit, he found that the heat of the liquefied gas furnace caused the oil flower to splash, and the idea of transformation was created.
after studying, he wrote the transformation of the stove into a new patent application for a closed diversion gas flue gas gate. After a series of material declarations and approval, he had the first utility model patent authorized by the first national patent office.
in addition to the discovery in daily life, he mostly read newspapers and watch TV for inspiration. In 2008, I watched TV and found that archaeologists were unearthed when excavating cultural relics. They wanted to be able to do a pillar free shed to resist the wind and rain, and designed the.Amp; lsquo long span suspension ceiling. Technology and application.Amp; rsquo, did not expect to be seen by the aviation department, Dong Lantian said, he had been studying medicine, after retirement, the fields involved in the patent application were very wide, manufacturing, construction, transportation, energy, metallurgy, military, machinery and so on. I had to take the core of the problem and put forward a solution. That's all right. Since the retirement of
, Dong Lantian has applied for 285 patents, including 144 invention patents and 141 utility models.
85% of the patent has failed
Dong Lantian / > since the retirement of the annual fee, 207 patents have been authorized, and more than 85% have failed due to the unpaid annual fee. In these years, my personal application patent, some of the unpaid annual fee has given up ownership, and now there are more than 50 patents in hand, Dong Lantian took out an effective patent directory, of which 21 patents were authorized, and another 31 patents were in the trial stage.
over the past 13 years, there have been about 40 successful transformation of his personal application patents, and not the 1/4 of authorized patent. Dong Lantian said that many people in the circle knew me because they had gone to some enterprises to help them solve the problem. So many patents were converted, and the patent conversion rate of the national folk inventors was less than 10% in the impression.
there are many other folk inventors like Dong Lantian. Wang Liuxiang, more than 50, is keen on invention after work. Over the years, Wang Liuxiang has applied for 3 patents, and only one of them has been authorized.
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the official website of the Shandong Provincial Intellectual Property Office issued by the official website of the Shandong Provincial Intellectual Property Office on 2016, the provincial patent information bulletin showed that the total patent application amount in the whole province was 88359, the amount of invention patent was 19404, the increase of the patent authorized by the enterprises in the whole province reached 108. 16, the total number of authorized patents granted by institutions of higher learning in the province reached 3637, and the authorized volume of invention patents reached 903 in the whole province. A staff member of the Shandong Provincial Intellectual Property Office said that there was no statistics on the number of job inventions and non job inventions for the time being. From all aspects of professionalism, the probability of authorizing the job inventions was higher.
why is the patent conversion rate of the private inventor low? Li Xiansheng, Secretary General of the Shandong Invention Association, said that at present, the conversion rate of the inventions of enterprises is the highest, because the invention is closely related to the actual production of the enterprise. In addition, the inventor does not know what the enterprise needs, and the enterprise that they invent is not used, which causes the patent to be unable to transform. The situation. In November 2006, we launched a trading center, and the inventor could apply for the disclosure of its patents and contacts on our website, and the enterprises or units with corresponding needs will contact them, a staff member of the patent enforcement office of the Ji'nan Intellectual Property Office said.