摘要
中国企业近年来在海外市场频繁遭遇专利战,国际化经营因此遭受严重冲击;专利战是以打击竞争对手,牟取商业利益或竞争优势为目的,围绕着专利的权属与使用而展开的专利攻防行为,已成为中国企业面临的严峻挑战.美国是全球专利战的主战场,因此以中国企业在美国遭遇的专利战为样本开展实证研究.研究表明,相对专利实力与专利战之间呈倒U型关系,非生产专利实体比常规主体更倾向发起专利战,专利转让次数、权利要求数与专利战显著相关,技术内卷对上述关系具有调节作用.因此,为有效应对海外市场的专利战风险,提出要加强国际专利申请和布局,以提升自身抵御专利战的专利实力;重视陷入技术内卷的产业领域的专利战风险,开展针对高风险主体和高风险专利的专利预警.
Abstract
Chinese enterprises have frequently encountered patent war in overseas markets in recent decades,which has severely shocked their international operation.Patent war is attack and defense behavior around the ownership and utilization of patents,and its purpose is to strike competitors and gain business interests or competitive advantages.Patent war has become a serious challenge for Chinese enterprises.The US market is the main battleground in the global patent war.We carry out an empirical study on the patent war encountered by Chinese enterprises in the US market.The results show an inverted U-shaped relationship between relative patent strength and patent war.NPE prefers to initiate patent war compared to conventional entities.Transfer times and the number of claims are significantly correlated with patent war.Technological involution has a moderating effect on the above relationships.Therefore,it is necessary to strengthen the application and layout of international patents,and improve patent strength to resist the patent war in overseas markets.The patent war risk in the field with technological involution should be paid higher attention,and patent warning should be implemented for high-risk entities and patents.