Patent

What is a patent? A patent is a form of the right granted by the government to an inventor, giving the owner the right to exclude others from making, using, selling, offering to sell, and importing an invention for a limited period of time, in exchange for the public disclosure of the invention. An invention is a solution to a specific technological problem, which may be a product or a process and generally has to fulfill three main requirements: it has to be new, not obvious and there needs to be an industrial applicability. (Wikipedia) 

I used to be a patent worker for invention protection on intellectual property field in China. My job’s major responsibilities are the patent revision, patent keyword extract, the patent classification in terms of IPC(International Patent Classification) and so on. Before working, each employee needs to complete an induction training (formal learning) for three months about an international patent law, China patent law, patent examination, IPC, and a wide variety of patent knowledge. I worked for this company for six years. During this time, I revised 14,000 biological patents which come from different countries, China, Europe, USA, Japan, and so on. For patent, more and more people in China emphasize its importance and benefits and encourage invention-creation to promote the development of science and technology. Each year, the amount of invention-patent application is tremendous in China.