The development status of China's cutting tool industry is thought-provoking

Although China's manufacturing has long been famous in the world, China's manufacturing industry, the big but not strong reality has been plaguing China's economic development for many years, the simple circulation of cheap labor and its labor productivity, and the industrialized countries such as the United States, Europe and Japan. There are too many gaps, which is worth reflecting. As a basic industry in the manufacturing industry, the tool industry is also facing such a dilemma.

Imitation, hard to swallow
All along, some tool companies regard "pre-imitation, post-innovation" as the research and development idea of ​​enterprise products, which has led many foreign tool companies to criticize. They think that imitation products have constituted infringement.

The term imitation can be interpreted as imitative production. There is no doubt that imitation is an infringement of intellectual property rights.

Bringing intellectual property disputes
Compared with international brand tool companies, China's tool companies are still incomparable in terms of scale and technology. In particular, technical barriers are more difficult for some companies to overcome. By copying advanced cutting tools, it will undoubtedly bring benefits to some tool companies. Of course, the drawbacks are obvious, and it is suspected of infringing intellectual property rights. Some enterprises have thus accumulated a thick technical talent reserve, and gradually began to make independent innovation in the true sense, but most enterprises are still immersed in endless imitation, always at the bottom. Not only that, but with the rise of some domestic tool companies, the imitation objects have gradually shifted.

Once the product is suspected of being brought to court by imitation, the imitation of the bitter fruit will be revealed. A few years ago, a domestic independent brand Z had been sued by a famous international tool company C for several products suspected of imitation. The entire litigation process lasted for several years. During the period, several products of Z company were banned from listing, although last The result ended with the withdrawal of the C company, but the loss was immeasurable. In 2009, two well-known tool brands in China, SQ, were in court due to intellectual property disputes. They were attacking the high-speed development of Q enterprises, and many executives were even criminally prosecuted. The future is worrying.

Two cases have brought warnings to the tool industry to imitate innovation, attach importance to intellectual property protection today, and enhance the ability of independent innovation to develop the right path. However, to this day, many small tool companies are still doing their own thing and continue to rely on imitation of advanced tools to profit.

In addition to being able to obtain technological advancement through imitation, some users' needs also imitate one of the reasons for tool survival. Some small machine processing enterprises need low-cost, quality can also get certain guaranteed tools. The imitation tools have certain technical content and can meet the processing requirements of these enterprises. On the other hand, in many industries such as automobiles and steam turbines, some user companies have realized the cost control through the localization of tools. The localization of such tools is also a copy, which infringes the intellectual property rights of the original tools.

However, these companies have limited technical capabilities, and a limited number of technicians are simply unable to conduct innovative research, spending more time on the after-sales service of surveying tools. The mere imitation of the tool will leave hidden dangers for the future development of the enterprise. The company will only accumulate manufacturing experience, and the technical strength will still not be improved. It will not be innovative on the basis of imitation, and thus it will lay a hidden danger for future intellectual property disputes.

Promote technological progress
One thing is clear: mapping and analyzing other products is not infringing. Therefore, in addition to imitation, many companies will analyze the competitor's products to obtain detailed survey and analysis reports, so as to understand the advantages of each other's products, in order to refer to the development of new products, we can call it imitation.

There is a fundamental difference in the imitation of imitation. In the field of industrial technology, imitation is an important means of promoting technological progress, which is recognized by most people. Now when it comes to innovation, many people are eager to try to come up with something that has never come before to prove their extraordinary creativity, but it is not realistic to rely on the shoulders of their predecessors to rely on themselves to create. In fact, in the field of tool innovation, a patented tool is not necessarily universally recognized.

When a company produces a certain type of product, it first searches for the patent. If the patent is deposited, it will generally apply for a change based on the patent structure, so that the product does not conflict with the patent claim, so there is no fear of infringement. An industry expert told reporters that many internationally renowned tool companies have such a situation. For example, an enterprise applies for patent protection for a product design, and another company avoids infringement by changing its appearance through the principle of imitation, internal structure, etc. In fact, it also plagiarizes the tool design principle of the enterprise. But this change has positive implications.

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