U.S. Patents: A Resilient Innovation Mechanism

Patent exercise activities in the United States have been in a continuous alternation from cold to hot and from hot to cold. At the climax of technological innovation, patent exercise activities enter an active period. Nanjing Huaxun believes that at this time, there is a gathering of innovative talents, the number of patent applications has greatly increased, a large amount of funds have poured into the field of innovation, opportunities in the field of new technologies, and risks are also numerous. Agricultural technology revolution, industrial technology revolution, information technology revolution, every time a major technological change will appear such a phenomenon.

Nanjing Huaxun in the actual analysis, the United States has gone through three rounds of patent exercise climax. In different historical periods, the status of patent innovation mechanism in American society is constantly changing. The history of U.S. patents is full of glory, sinking and dreams, and the pendulum of patent protection swings between strengthening protection and weakening protection. Patents are one of the main regulatory mechanisms for the development of the innovation economy in the United States: when the pendulum of protection swings to the left, the state pays more attention to the protection of public interests, opposes technology monopoly and market monopoly, and supports enterprises to copy and produce at low cost; When the pendulum of protection swings to the right, the state pays more attention to the legal monopoly of patentees and encourages innovators.

Through this adjustment mechanism, the U.S. patent mechanism can always add profit to the fire of innovation at the critical moment of technological development, and can adjust the protection strength in time when the climax of technological innovation is over, so as to appropriately cool down various innovation opportunists. This is one of the main reasons why American innovation has always been ahead of the world.

U.S. patent law is an important part of the U.S. economic system and is the engine that makes the United States the best place in the world for innovation. In the history of the United States, there have been various proposals for patent reform and reform. Although the focus is different each time, they mainly come from two camps. One camp believes that more patent protection and more awards for inventions are needed; the other believes that patent protection should be weakened to avoid suppressing competition in the corporate market. The two sides have different positions, but they are equally committed. The result is that "either the east wind prevails over the west wind, or the west wind overwhelms the east wind", and patent protection always shifts from one extreme to the other. Every time the patent law reform in the United States is suspected of overkill, it can always provide appropriate impetus to the innovation economy of the United States without causing too much negative impact on economic development.

Another phenomenon that deserves attention is the recurring symbiosis of patent wars and patent jungles in U.S. economic history. At every innovation boom, along with sudden and fundamental technological leaps, the patent jungle and the patent war will appear at the same time. In fact, the U.S. patent system is designed to promote patent jungle design from top to bottom. Therefore, the patent war has not exhausted American enterprises from innovation resources, nor has the patent jungle deterred American enterprises. The U.S. patent mechanism will adapt to the environment through changes, solve excessive patent wars and over-dense patent jungles, promote cooperation among enterprises, and escort breakthrough technological innovation.

The cost is inevitable. Throughout the history of American patent innovation, there is a fierce conflict between innovative proletarians and those who make property, full of blood, cunning, humiliation and helplessness, as well as resistance, riots and uprisings.