Abstract
Faced with an increasingly competitive marketplace in liberalized economies, companies must do investment in innovation to maintain their competitiveness. And they are faced with the need to find ways to manage their innovative results appropriately so as to avoid that their competitive edge is eroded by falling into the hands of the competition without being able to recoup their investments in R&D and making a reasonable profit. Intellectual property rights have emerged as a key tool for obtaining control over a company’s intangible assets. Regardless of using patent as a weapon of commerce attacks, or as a powerful tool in defense patent infringement, in recent years, the importance of patent for enterprises grows violent. The increasingly strategic uses of patents and their importance for competitive advantage, however, pose special challenges for small-medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Nonetheless, it has been noted that enterprises are reluctant to use the IP system due to its perceived complexity, high costs, and low awareness of the IP impacts. Because of the information deficiency and underestimation of IP value, companies usually can not make widespread and effective utilization of the IP system. This study will concentrate on how to provide systematic approach to intelligent IP gathering, analysis, and IP knowledge services to enterprises. By model construction, process analysis, and analyzing the key functions of IP service providers, an innovative business model for intellectual property services is invented.