Why must a patent search be conducted before developing a new product?

Before developing a new product, conducting adequate market research and consulting relevant scientific and technical journals, magazines and other scientific and technical information are things that new product developers usually do. However, a specialized patent search for this purpose is often overlooked. In fact, the search for patent literature for the scientific establishment of new products is crucial to scientific research topics. First of all, through the patent search, you can determine the necessity of scientific research projects. D95% of the world's 90% of the latest technology are recorded in the patent literature, a more comprehensive patent search, you can determine their own new product research and development issues whether it is necessary to set up a project, such as if there has been the same new technology applied for a patent, then again to set up a project, which will inevitably lead to research and development of the same, waste of manpower and financial resources, and their own hard work to develop a new product, there is also the risk of infringing on the patents of others, is bound to be limited by others, and will be the only way to achieve the same result. Will certainly be subject to others, it is not worth the loss. Secondly, through patent search, R&D personnel can make themselves on the basis of the relevant patented technology, jump out of the scope of patent protection, to conduct deeper research, so as to establish a high starting point for the development of new products, to avoid repeated investment and repeated development, and at the same time, can avoid infringement of the situation. In addition, through patent search, you can understand the leading direction of competitors' product development, so that you can know yourself and know your enemy, and then make the right decision accordingly to ensure that your own enterprise to win the initiative in the market competition. Example 1 Patent search allows Guangdong Aowo to create a new world Guangdong Aowo company in the early stage of business, its researchers learned that the world for the removal of brain tumors in the non-invasive medical equipment?D?D Gamma Knife, but the researchers know very little about its structure. So they used the method of searching patents, found the patent specification about the gamma knife, after repeated research and analysis, the researchers found that there are obvious defects, that is, its gamma ray emitting head is fixed, gamma rays are always unchanging from a fixed direction focused on the brain lesion site, a long time, the brain's normal tissues will be damaged. They opened their brains, actively explored, and widely sought technical support, and finally found out a new R & D ideas that not only do not infringe on the patents of foreign companies, but also have their own technical advantages. They designed the ray emitting head to be rotatable, in this way, although the gamma ray beam is moving, but its focus remains unchanged, so as to reduce the damage of gamma rays to the normal brain tissue of human beings, and at the same time can achieve good therapeutic effect, but also did not infringe on other people's patent rights. After that, Ovo applied for a patent for its research and development results in time, and under the protection of the patent will be a new generation of gamma knife products to the market. Example 2: Spending energy on design, the result is all for nothing A professor of a university in Lanzhou is ready to design a highway parking lot, due to the lack of a systematic patent search in advance, resulting in him spending a lot of time and energy for research and design, drawing a lot of drawings for parking lot design and construction, in its application for patent, but found that there are more than 40 patents and this research topic is the same or similar to some patents even more than the professor's design, but the patent is not the same as the patent, but the patent is not the same as the patent. Some of the patents were even more advanced than the professor's design. As a result, the professor had wasted a lot of time and energy but got nothing. I hope that other researchers will not make the same mistake.