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I. Business Details

Patent layout refers to the organic integration of patents by enterprises, taking into account factors such as industry, market, and legal considerations. It encompasses dimensions like time, region, technology, and products related to the enterprise's interests, aiming to construct a tight and efficient patent protection network and ultimately form a patent portfolio that benefits the enterprise.

A patent right is an exclusive right characterized by its monopolistic exclusivity, territoriality, and temporality. Patent holders exchange "disclosure" for "exclusivity," while the territorial and temporal limitations of patents restrict the patent holder's exclusive rights. Therefore, to maximize patent exclusivity, patent holders must put significant effort into patent layout.

As the outcome of patent layout, an enterprise's patent portfolio should have a certain scale, with clear protection levels and comprehensive functionality, thereby gaining a competitive advantage in specific fields.

Patent layout is a planned and strategic activity involving patent mining and deployment. Through patent layout, enterprises can overcome the blindness and fragmentation of patent applications, shifting from passively "applying for patents for the sake of patents" to "applying for patents with clear goals and plans based on the enterprise's development needs." This enhances the efficiency of patent application resources and the overall value of the patent portfolio, providing practical and effective patent support for enterprise development.

II. Benefits of Patent Cultivation and Layout

1. Enhance Enterprise Competitiveness

A reasonable patent layout can increase the overall value of an enterprise's patents, enhance its market competitiveness, and maximize the role of patents as a strategic tool in enterprise competition.

2. Cost Savings

It facilitates rational patent applications, saving application costs. At the same time, it helps build a reasonable patent protection network, avoiding scattered and disorganized patent applications.

3. Strengthen Self-Protection

It involves deploying restraining patents with combined or strategic value around core patents to counter competitors. This can create monopolistic or defensive effects for the enterprise, build robust technical barriers, and align closely with the enterprise's overall strategic planning.

4. Guide Research and Development

It helps correctly guide R&D direction, promote rational R&D, improve R&D outcomes, expand the value chain based on ensuring the market value of products, and add value to R&D.

III. Lizhi Patent Layout and Planning Services

1.Deeply mine core technologies, assess and confirm the current status of technologies through patent searches, analyze and predict industry hotspots and gaps based on search results, and identify high-value core innovation points.

2.Organize core innovation points, expand and extend around them, and form peripheral innovation points based on application scenarios, industry chains, and system relationships.

3.Form high-value patent packages based on the mined core and peripheral innovation points, create comprehensive patent layouts, and enhance patent protection strength by improving both quality and quantity.

4.Adopt an anti-circumvention, comprehensive, and forward-thinking patent layout approach to build a patent network that is difficult for competitors to design around, and master patent packages that serve as countermeasures against competitors.