Patent fee managenment system and method

Abstract

The system for managing patents is applicable to the interior of corporations, providing the comprehensive management mode. Based on the period for reminding users of paying the patent fee, the executing system prompts users to pay the patent fee automatically. The system provides the functions of data retrieval, record updating and form generation assist the users to manage the enormous data for paying the patent fees. The invention prevnets the lack of paying the patent fees caused by the personal neglects resulting in lose of the patent right.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a patent data management system, which utilizes a database to manage the payment of patent cases, in particular to a patent fee management system and its method. Background technique [0002] As countries around the world pay more and more attention to intellectual property rights, many enterprises and manufacturers in our country will carefully evaluate and file patent applications when they are committed to research and development. In recent years, whether they are approved in Taiwan, the United States or other countries The number of patents is also showing a trend of substantial growth, especially for some large companies, and the cumulative number of approved applications for each year is nearly a thousand. For these hundreds and thousands of invention data and subsequent maintenance operations, if you still use Traditional manual management is time-consuming and error-prone. Therefore, there is an urgent need for a syste...

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[0002] As countries around the world pay more and more attention to intellectual property rights, many enterprises and manufacturers in our country will carefully evaluate and file patent applications when they are committed to research and development. In recent years, whether they are approved in Taiwan, the United States or other countries The number of patents is also showing a trend of substantial growth, especially for some large companies, and the cumulative number of approved applications for each year is nearly a thousand. For these hundreds and thousands of invention data and subsequent maintenance operations, if you still use Traditional manual management is not only time-consuming and error-prone, so there is an urgent need for a systematic management method to avoid human errors and improper management caused by the rapid increase in data

[0003] The traditional manual operation method is to use paper records to record various invention-related data, and then manually enter electronic forms to summarize various monthly fees and pending data. This is entirely dependent on the collation and storage of patent managers, and the computer is only on the sidelines. Assist in processing some simple calculations, and cannot provide powerful auxiliary functions. Once any incident occurs, there is no substitute to assist temporarily, or the data management personnel misses the deadline for fee payment due to a momentary mistake, or the letter is lost or the office misses the notification ...and other unpredictable human negligence, not only cannot control the data in real time, but may even lead to the failure of payment of fees and the revocation of patent rights, and the current patent management personnel use data overprinting or pasting when paying fees. This complicated manual processing is also very time-consuming, and there is no way to automatically generate various payment forms according to the different needs of patent processing, which is quite inconvenient in management and processing. Faced with this situation, it is really necessary A simple and convenient patent fee management system to solve this problem

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