Foshan lighting industry patent profiles: National Star potential first

September 13th, Foshan Lighting Association for the first time issued a "Foshan lighting industry patent navigation analysis report". Report from the perspective of the patent disclosure, the current situation of the development of lighting industry in Foshan from the world and pointed out that forced in the market, FSL industry patent applications since 2004 after the rapid growth, the emergence of a number of the country star power "big patent". However, there are still some problems in the industry, such as the low proportion of invention patent, the lack of technical innovation in the industry.

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It is reported that "Foshan lighting industry patent navigation analysis report" (hereinafter referred to as the "report") jointly issued by the Foshan municipal lighting association, Foshan IPR assistance centers, in addition to the disclosure of the "report" from the global to the patent development status of Foshan lighting industry, but also provide reference for the application for a patent retrieval lighting enterprises in Foshan the.

"Pay attention to patent applications, the enterprise out of the country has a great help. The deputy director of the Foshan Municipal Science and Technology Bureau, Li Juzhen on the day of the press conference said that the current anti-dumping, many traditional industries have encountered domestic and foreign sponsored, the fundamental reason lies in the enterprise product by low cost, lack of its own characteristics. And focus on patent research and development applications, in essence, is also the focus of innovation performance.

The report, from the perspective of patents to disclose the latest status of FSL lighting industry. According to the report shows that as of last year, more than 300 enterprises in Foshan lighting industry scale enterprises, industrial output value of more than 20 billion yuan.

From the province's point of view, the current lighting active areas in Guangdong Province, including Shenzhen, Dongguan, Guangzhou, Foshan and other places. According to the report of the main cities in Guangdong Province, the number of lighting industry patent rankings. Ranking shows that from the patent type, the total amount of Shenzhen lighting patents nearly 30 thousand pieces. The report also pointed out that the majority of patents in Shenzhen, Guangdong, Shenzhen in the lighting industry, has an unparalleled advantage. From a quantitative point of view, Foshan ranked fifth in the province.

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From the entire patent application volume, the recent rise in the number of patent applications FSL lamps obvious.

The report shows that from 2000 to 2003, Foshan lighting patent application growth is flat, the annual patent applications vary little, the annual number of patent applications less than 10. For this phenomenon, the report said, mainly because at that time, FSL enterprises mainly labor-intensive products, lighting products lack of innovation capability.

But the following year, along with foreign brands to enter the Chinese market, forced to change the development model of Foshan enterprises. Data show that from the beginning of 2004, Foshan lamps patent applications began to show an upward trend. By 2008 the four years, the average annual growth rate of lighting applications in Foshan reached 130%.

In this period of rapid growth, FSL industry has emerged a number of large patent".

"Report" shows that Foshan state star Au Optronics Co to 168 pieces of the number of lighting patents, ranked first in the list of patents FSL lamps. The cross-border home appliance giant, Midea Group Limited by Share Ltd currently has a number of patent lighting has reached 84, also among the FSL patent large list.

However, from the specific types of patents, Foshan lighting patents, mainly to the utility model patents, a total of 2647, accounting for all of the lights patent of 72.9%. The invention patent application 809, accounting for all the lights patent of 22.3%.

It is noteworthy that the invention patents only 174, accounting for less than 5% of all lighting patents. "Report" that, from this group of data can be seen in the presence of Foshan lighting patent licensing ratio is low, the patent quality level is not high, lack of technical innovation. "

In addition, the report also made recommendations for the future development opportunities for the future of FSL lighting industry, on the whole, LED lighting products in the domestic market has been fully penetrated. At present, the domestic LED listed companies with capital, technology and talent advantages entered the field of LED lighting, the whole industry has full market competition, the low-end and high-end differentiation obvious characteristics, suggested that Foshan enterprises should make the integration of resources, seize the development opportunities of LED.

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