Analysis on the patent quantity and structure of 17 LED Enterprises

This year, LED industry entered into the mature stage, adjust at the same time in the distribution and quantity of patent structure of alternative technologies and products to reserve the patent deployment, who holds an important patent technology, who will affect the new pattern of industrial development. Among them, about ten billion LED enterprise patent industry.

According to the South wealth network data show that in 2015 the 44 LED stocks (LED stocks, including LED chip, LED packaging, LED applications, such as LED in the domestic A-share market listed companies in the production of A services.) In the output value of more than ten billion enterprise 17, mainly distributed in Guangdong, Shanghai, Shandong and other regions, which shares the same side, Sanan optoelectronics, GoerTek sound in top three. Next, we will focus on the analysis of the patent performance of these 17 billion LED listed companies, and find out their differences and characteristics.

April 13, 2015 statistics, the output value of more than 10 billion LED companies include:

The correlation coefficient between enterprise scale and patent number is less than 0.4

On the basis of the number of listed enterprise production scale, enterprise patent, a simple analysis of the correlation between the correlation coefficient of 0.399, from a statistical point of view, this means that the firm scale of listed company and the patent has positive correlation. However, the correlation coefficient is less than 0.4, which shows that the correlation between the two is weak, there is a large scale of individual enterprises, but the number of patents is less. By observing the data found that in 17 billion LED companies, there are fewer than 100 patent applications in the number of companies, mainly in the field of electronic devices and lighting equipment ().

In addition, the comparison, the total output value of the top five enterprises, the number of patent applications accounted for 17 enterprises, the number of patent applications 78.5%, that is to say, LED enterprises in the patent application, there are also the rich richer phenomenon.

Figure: the output value of the top 5 enterprises patent applications

In 17 LED enterprises, the total patent application ratio, the maximum is 53.84%, the minimum is 5.93%, the average ratio reached 31.38%, with the development of enterprises, the core competitiveness of enterprises billion gap will gradually increase.

Figure: percentage of patent applications for patent applications

From the point of view of effective invention, 17 companies have been authorized and maintained patents, accounting for the proportion of the total invention patent application is also large, the largest is 65.51%, the smallest of the average ratio of up to 36.62%, up to 7.14%.

Patent agencies choose different attitudes, internal digestion PK agency

From the above 17 LED concept stocks in the search to understand that only one enterprise patent basically completed by the internal independent writing, did not show the case of a patent agency. The remaining companies are outsourcing and internal writing combination.

At the agency the geographical distribution, the north of Guangzhou Shenzhen is the patent agency service of the main component, but the agency enterprises are gradually increasing, the formation of "enterprise mode of local patent agency agency + Guangzhou Shenzhen agency service.

Feature selection in agency, choice of enterprise diversification, "specificity" less, showed a gradual change, based on long-term cooperation mechanism, the enterprise usually choose the new agency dispersed the patent agency business, the relative viscosity is not strong.

How to choose the appropriate agency, especially the patent layout of more than 10 billion enterprises, is also facing many problems, the enterprise by changing the agency's way to choose the best service provider.

Enterprises need to consider the risk of patent, patent layout system

The listed companies have a high degree of openness, the cost of investigation and evidence collection is small, and it is easy to become the object of tort prosecution. Lack of the necessary patent reserves, listed companies face the risk of patents, much higher than similar non-listed company. Therefore, it is very important for listed companies to strengthen the patent reserve to deal with the patent risk. Even if is the same as the ten billion enterprise, in terms of patent layout, layout, balance of power is also very obvious, highlights the lack of core technology research and development, mining technology such as lack of short board, directly affect the future business risk.

As the future ten billion enterprise, many LED enterprises in the fast growth stage, but can not ignore the patent accumulation and distribution, this is not only related to the prevention of future patent risk, more related to the enterprise technology innovation and enhance core competitiveness.

So, at this stage of the enterprise should be clear what patent problem? Wang Hua, Deputy Secretary General of the LED industry patent alliance gives recommendations. He believes that the increase in patent reserves, not just to solve the problem of R & D investment, how to effectively protect the results of research and development, the test is the strength of the patent writing. Patent document writing is the two development of technology, as far as possible to achieve full protection of technology, to become a powerful weapon to deal with litigation, licensing and technical assessment. Larger enterprises, has begun to gradually strengthen the personnel training in the layout of the patent, to achieve the transformation of patent strategy.

Wang Hua also said, "through the original accumulation of small and medium-sized enterprises, is the future of the ten billion of large enterprises, according to the current trend of small and medium enterprises from the initial stage, to carry out patent counseling, LED is very important for the development of strategic emerging industries. Recently, we are also relying on Beijing Jun Hua intellectual property agency, focusing on LED industry strategy