The factors affecting the patent maintenance time

Abstract

Abstract: The study of the factors affecting the patent maintenance time is very important for improving the operational performance of the patent system. The technological field and the patent family are technical factors affecting the patent maintenance time;while annual patent maintenance fee system, protection scope, inventiveness standards, and methods for determining the patent infringement are the institutional factors, and the patent management system and the enterprise patent strategies are innovative main body factors affecting the patent maintenance time.

Key words: patent, maintenance time, influencing factor

CLC Number:

G306.3

Qiao Yongzhong. The factors affecting the patent maintenance time[J]. Science Research Management, 2011, 32(7): 143-149,164.

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