Meaningless innovation hinders the development of LED industry in China

Germany Frankfurt report December 15th article, the original title: meaningless innovation, China to stop the national innovation award. In China, install a manual brake device in the back of the car seat, you can apply for a patent, even get national awards. Taylor Wessing LLP is responsible for the Far East intellectual property lawyer Thomas Patloch said: "(Chinese) many patent applications are meaningless, or even what invention value. "In order to demonstrate the ability of innovation, Chinese enterprises are seeking quantity without quality. This is not only a waste, but also hinder competition. More and more foreign companies find themselves entangled in patent thicket.

Like almost everything, patent applications in china. In 2011 China became the first country to submit the largest number of patent applications. But only a part of the big increase in patent applications is associated with increased creativity.

In 2008, China introduced the "national intellectual property strategy", which proposed to register 2 million patents every year in 2020. One of the goals of the Beijing offensive is to show that China is no longer the "world factory" and "the kingdom of shanzhai". Foreign experts believe that the current approach is counterproductive. German economic Asia Pacific Commission spokesman Bruder Muller said that the company's patent applications need quality. More patent applications do not represent China's real ability to innovate.

Patent status of China's LED industry

LED industry has broad market prospects, coupled with the strong support of the government, China's LED industry has been booming in recent years. The lack of innovation in China's LED industry, the lack of core patents, had to face a serious patent dispute. If only from the number of view, the number of LED patents owned by China is second only to the United States and Japan, roughly equivalent to Germany, but there are a considerable number of utility model patents. What is a utility model patent, Baidu explained as follows:

The utility model relates to a new technical proposal, which is suitable for practical use, which is suitable for the practical use of the shape, the structure, or the combination of the product. Its creative and technical level is lower than that of invention patent, but it is of great practical value, and it should be adopted to simplify the examination and approval procedures, shorten the period of protection and lower the standard of charge.

Regarding the utility model, some countries do not regard it as an independent object of patent protection. In some countries, the utility model is classified as an independent object of patent protection.

The purpose of the country to protect the utility model is to encourage the creation of small inventions with low cost and short development cycle, so as to meet the needs of economic development more quickly.

The "Paris Convention" does not specify the concept of utility model, but stipulates that the utility model enjoys the benefits of invention patent.

The agreement on trade related knowledge does not specify the type of utility model.

The patent law of China clearly defines the utility model as one of the objects of patent protection, and stipulates that the utility model patent refers to a new technical scheme which is suitable for practical use. The technical scheme is lower than the invention patent at the technical level.

Originally, many of our business utility model patent is only a small invention. Patent strategy is not terrible, this is a kind of rules of the game, Chinese LED enterprises should enhance confidence. At present, many of the world's LED patent field, but the real threat to other enterprise's patent is not much, such as Nichia chemical, can be found in the patent of thousands of pieces, but the real use of the core patent is nothing more than the production of the blue light excitation phosphor into white light technology, P technology, low temperature activated transition layer technology. Therefore, the quality of the patent is more important than quantity, we LED companies can not only fight the number of patents, not only the utility model". LED companies in China only a few core elements of the original technology innovation, have the opportunity to participate in the future of the LED international market competition.