Editor's note.When it comes to high value patents, the author of this article believes that such patents are high value patents if they can be recognized by all parties in their application and play a very good role in the improvement of product quality, transformation and upgrading of enterprises and industries, and the improvement of economic benefits. The practice of market competition shows that high-value patents are a powerful tool for industrial competition, and will further enhance the core competitiveness of China's industry.

In recent years, China has implemented an innovation-driven development strategy and accelerated the building of an intellectual property power, which has greatly stimulated the innovation vitality of society as a whole, and the number of patent applications for inventions has steadily risen to a new level. Over the past few years, on the basis of the in-depth implementation of the national intellectual property strategy, the quality of patent creation has been improving, and the benefits of patent utilization have gradually emerged. When it comes to high value patents, the author believes that patents that can be recognized by all parties in the application, and play a very good role in the improvement of product quality, transformation and upgrading of enterprises and industries, and the improvement of economic benefits, can be considered as high value patents.

High-value patents are the new driving force for industrial development. After more than 30 years of development since the reform and opening up, the current domestic industry is facing transformation and upgrading, so it needs to adopt high and new technologies, strengthen the innovation ability and enhance the strength of intellectual property rights in order to enhance the core competitiveness of the industry. Looking back at the road of development of China's color TV industry, it is inseparable from innovation and intellectual property rights support. From being an ordinary consumer electronic product at the beginning, color TV has now become a concentrated carrier of high technology in the field of information technology, and of course, a highly concentrated carrier of all kinds of patents. From the traditional technology of audio and video coding and decoding, signal transmission and display, to today's intelligent technology, including computer and Internet-related technology and software, as well as human-computer interaction technology, these constantly developing new technologies contain a lot of important patents. The increase in the "monetary value" of technology has made the role of high-value patents increasingly prominent.

High-value patents are the competitiveness of enterprises. In the international industrial competition, without independent intellectual property rights and high-value patents, industrial development will be difficult. Today, in order to master the initiative of industrial development, it is necessary to combine the domestic and foreign market demand, and constantly develop advanced technology to form more high-value patents. The main body of patent implementation is enterprises, and internationally renowned consumer electronics enterprises have a large number of patents. In order to improve their technological innovation capability, Chinese enterprises have spontaneously established some patent alliances or industrial alliances, forming public R&D platforms, one of which is the National Engineering Research Center for Digital TV. The center's main task is to do common forward-looking technology research and development, form patents for advanced technologies, and build industry patent pools. The practice of market competition shows that, for the color TV industry, brand, technology and patents, especially high-value patents, are powerful tools for industrial competition.

High-value patents must be valued in their application. The goal of the National Engineering Research Center for Digital Television is to establish new television technology standards covering half the world's population, while reversing passivity on patent issues. The implementation of innovation-driven development strategies all bring new opportunities to achieve this goal and provide new paths to meet the challenges of international industry competition. In 2013, the U.S. launched a study on the new generation of digital TV standards and established a new International Organization for Standardization (ATSC). After the efforts in recent years, the National Engineering Research Center for Digital TV (NERC) submitted a "Chinese proposal" to the organization through joint research, and successfully imported five technology modules, accounting for about 30% of the total patent pool, including a series of high-value patents, for Chinese enterprises to "go out". "The foundation was laid. Today, we not only have high-value patents, but also some international standards, and, more importantly, we reap significant economic benefits from licensing our patents.

At present, from the successful cases of some domestic patent operations, it can be found that from the perspective of application, patents should not only have sufficient quantity, but also high quality. Under the new situation of accelerating the construction of intellectual property power, actively stimulate the creation, promote the effective use, strengthen the protection according to the law, pragmatic scientific management, improve the service level, will inevitably promote the emergence of more high-level, high-quality, accepted by the market and valued by enterprises of high-value patents, and further enhance the core competitiveness of China's industry.

(Source: Xia Pingjian, General Manager, National Engineering Research Center for Digital TV)