What would you think if your appendix needs to be removed, but the doctor asked you to lie directly on the corner bed without any examination, diagnosis or medical tests to operate directly on you?

This is obviously a joke. People who lack medical knowledge also know that surgery requires various examinations and laboratory pathology. The doctor will proceed according to the patient's light words."Scraping the bone to cure poison", I'm afraid the consequences are difficult for ordinary people to accept. In the absence of modern medical basis, the operation is almost impossible to carry out.

But can accept such"Surgical patients" abound in the patent industry.

The first step in applying for a patent is to search! The scope of protection of the patent depends on the comparative state of the invention with the prior art. No matter how advanced and exquisite an invention is, how noticeable it is! As long as there is existing technology, everything is nothing, like falling from a high peak into an abyss. In China's professional industry, there is a common problem of insufficient application for retrieval or simply not searching.

If there is a lack of search, the agent will only give priority to the disclosure provided by the inventor when writing the manuscript. For example, the inventor submitted a microscope, including handle, handle and front section microscope. It is characterized by a temperature sensor, automatic scanning and video recording device at the front end. When the handheld microscope in the target area temperature is greater than the surrounding temperature, will start the automatic scanning, video function. If this function is the inventor's temporary whimsy, the agent according to the inventor's elaboration based on experience, in view of the inventor's enthusiasm to assume that this is a high-value patent, but also for domestic and foreign layout, the whole cost is close.10million dollars.

Agents and businesses are confident that the patent may become worthless because it has not been searched, assuming that the existing technology has been implemented to the existence of automatic scanning and video functions in the microscope.10million dollars into RMB70Wan was finally rejected or invalid, is it not a child's play, a waste of time, money and energy.

Assuming that there is no such microscope in the prior art, and even the automatic scanning and video recording functions are not available, huge losses will also be caused if the claims do not pay attention to the scope of protection. Because automatic scanning and video recording can be used in many fields, leading to patent devaluation.

If you don't know the state of the existing technology to apply for a patent, it will be a huge waste, and eventually lead to rejection or invalidation, enterprises not only lose huge costs, misjudge the market situation.

The scope of protection is small, giving competitors the benefits they should have. The scope of protection is not clear, it is useless to do without novelty, and the general direction of patent authorization is very few, resulting in the patent layout cannot be carried out.

The doctor performed an operation on you without an examination and diagnosis. It was clearly a stomach problem, but he opened a knife in the lungs. This kind of headache and foot treatment is surprising and incredible. In the Chinese patent industry is widespread.

It can be seen that the importance of patent search, not doing search is like wasting money to give competitors free market benefits. The search, like a pre-operative examination, determines whether, how and in scope the patent can be applied.