Research On Patent Trend And Performance Of Hi-Tech Industry And Patent Risk

With the growth of knowledge economy and development of information technology, knowledge, information and technology have made great impact on economy. Hi-tech industry is taking bigger share in the economy of a country and becoming drive and core for the sustainable development of a country's economy at leading position. Accordingly the fast development of patent in hi-tech industry leads to bigger and bigger risk on technological innovation of hi-tech industry, which gives patents very important role and causes patent risk problems.The trend of hi-tech patent can be studied in seven aspects: the general application trend, core technology presentation, annual patent development trend, annual patent development rate, patent type, patent for invention, rate of increase. Through the index analysis on the above aspects for the relevant IPC patent data of information technology field, and the analysis on other key fields, this paper finds the trend that key enterprises and colleges are leading, key technology patents are concentrated and multinational companies own more patents in the hi-tech industries in our country. On the base of the above, this paper makes research on the patent performance of hi-tech industry and finds that although it has been improved generally, there is a gap between the patent performance in our country with it in developed countries. The gap comes from lower investment in R&D and unbalanced patent performance level in different business in hi-tech industry indicating only electric and telecom equipment, computer and office equipment have higher patent performance level. In front of this situation, this paper gives several ideas to promote the patent performance. Our government shall not only protect intellectual property, but also provent actively our local industries from intellectual property trap. The hi-tech industries shall make full use of the close relationship with local government and exert great efforts to drive the establishment and development of industrial patent technology strategic alliance. And also the hi-tech enterprises shall insist on the independent position of technology development and build their own intellectual property depth protection system.Different from the study regarding knowledge property as exogenous risk factor, this paper finds in hi-tech industry uncertainty of interior factors of patent right causes deeper impact of uncertainty. This kind of patent risk is mainly made by uncertainty of patent acquiry, uncertainty of patent validity, uncertainty of patent protection range and uncertainty of patent value. Existing in every phase of hi-tech development, and giving possibly both loss and benefit, it is caused from the patent system and can not be avoided completely.Patent map has three kinds which can be used for patent management analysis, patent technology analysis and patent right analysis. These three kinds of maps can be utilized to analyze the technology life cycle of hi-tech industry, find out the multi-terminal position and relationship of technology innovation subject in relevant industries, evaluate the research ability of innovation staff from potential competitors in relevant technology industries and forecast the technology innovation risk in hi-tech industry.The patent trend in hi-tech industries and patent risk will make wide influence on technology innovation, patent value assessment of innovation result and patent strategy in hi-tech industries. Therefore, our country should implement three solutions to increase the healthy development of hi-tech industries by first making efforts to set up technology service and support system; second facing the patent risk and trend, improving innovation ability, optimizing legal situation, pushing the construction of hi-tech zone and third exerting fully the effect of industry concentration.