Find a breakthrough for innovation and add new kinetic energy to the industry
During the National Intellectual Property Publicity Week in 2023, students from Heng Chang Dianxiang Primary School in Yuquan District, Hohhot City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region showed their intellectual property manuscripts to their classmates. Ding genhou
In Beijing, the Municipal Intellectual Property Office and 13 colleges and universities have jointly developed information public services to promote the generalization and accuracy of intellectual property information public services; In Shandong, the popularization activities of "Intellectual Property Entering Campus" were held in Qilu University of Technology and Jinan University. The lecturers focused on the topics of patent application, protection and achievement transformation, and answered questions face to face for college teachers and students … … The National Intellectual Property Publicity Week with the theme of "Strengthening the legal protection of intellectual property rights and strongly supporting all-round innovation" was held from April 20 to 26, and there were many highlights in various places.
Protecting intellectual property rights means protecting innovation. In recent years, China has made solid progress in building a strong intellectual property country, and intellectual property rights have increasingly become the standard for scientific and technological innovation and high-quality development. What is the current situation of intellectual property protection in China? What are the new features of high-quality development of intellectual property rights? What convenience does public service of intellectual property bring? The reporter conducted an interview.
The legal system of intellectual property rights has been continuously improved and the protection has been continuously enhanced.
In February this year, the Beijing Intellectual Property Court held an appointment ceremony, awarding letters of appointment to 115 part-time technical investigators from various fields such as machinery, medicine, materials and communication. These technical investigators have rich practical experience. In the next three years, they will assist judges to solve technical problems in cases involving the quality of innovative achievements and cutting-edge technologies, and inject "outside brain" power into escort innovation.
"We are a group of technical translators, technical staff and technical investigators around the judges, and we will quickly and accurately convey the technical facts identified to the judges." Zhang Hui, technical investigator of Beijing Intellectual Property Court, said.
The appearance of technical investigators is a microcosm of China’s continuous strengthening of intellectual property protection. The Civil Code has established major legal principles for protecting intellectual property rights according to law, the Patent Law, Trademark Law and Copyright Law have been revised, and the legislation on intellectual property rights in new fields and formats such as big data, artificial intelligence and genetic technology has been accelerated … … In recent years, China’s intellectual property legal system has been continuously improved, and the protection has been continuously enhanced. The social satisfaction of intellectual property protection has increased from 63.69 points in 2012 to 81.25 points in 2022.
In the past five years, the people’s courts have concluded 2.194 million intellectual property cases in the first instance, an increase of 221.1% year-on-year. China has become the country with the largest number of intellectual property cases and one of the countries with the shortest trial period. China has also established a punitive damages system with high international standards. According to the data of the Supreme People’s Court, the amount of compensation awarded for IPR infringement cases in 2022 increased by 153% compared with that in 2018.
In terms of administrative protection, in 2022, the intellectual property department handled 58,000 administrative adjudication cases of patent infringement disputes, handled 71,000 applications for rights protection assistance, and accepted 88,000 disputes mediation.
Not long ago, the construction of the first batch of national intellectual property protection demonstration zones was officially launched. This is another important measure for China to comprehensively strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights and strive to create a market-oriented, rule-of-law and international first-class business environment. China National Intellectual Property Administration, together with several departments, has worked out more than 20 "policy lists", such as supporting the rapid collaborative protection system of intellectual property rights, supporting the centralized examination of patent applications, and supporting the establishment of a "through train" for major patent infringement disputes, encouraging people to try first, and striving for an "experimental field" for innovative measures of intellectual property protection.
The relevant person in charge of China National Intellectual Property Administration said: "In the next step, we will strengthen the guidance for the construction of the first batch of demonstration zones in accordance with the overall plan of the National Demonstration Zone for Intellectual Property Protection and establish ‘ There are advances and retreats ’ The working mechanism, timely summarize and refine useful experiences and effective practices, promote replication and promotion nationwide, and promote the overall improvement of the national intellectual property protection capacity and level. "
The "gold content" of intellectual property rights has been significantly improved, from pursuing quantity to improving quality.
The rotating speed reaches more than 30 thousand revolutions per minute, but the floating range of the shaft is only a few microns … … In Shandong Tianrui Heavy Industry Co., Ltd., the magnetic levitation motor independently developed by the enterprise is running at high speed; In the production workshop, the important component of magnetic suspension power equipment, "three-dimensional flow impeller", is continuously milled. Blowers, vacuum pumps, air compressors and refrigerators using magnetic levitation technology serve the industries of paper-making, cement and steel, helping to achieve the goal of "double carbon".
Magnetic levitation technology enables enterprises to obtain the "acceleration" of innovation and development. In the exhibition hall of Tianrui Heavy Industry, a "patent wall" stands out. "Through the cultivation of high-value patents, we have gradually formed two patent groups of magnetic levitation and rock drills and more than 300 core patents, and the patent layout has been gradually improved to build the core competitiveness of enterprises. At the same time, through the transformation of high-value patents, it will promote the high-quality development of enterprises. " Li Yongsheng, chairman and chief scientist of the company, said.
In recent years, more and more innovative subjects have been recognized by the market by virtue of high-level intellectual property creation. TCL Huaxing Optoelectronic Technology Co., Ltd. has gradually built a highland of intellectual property rights by using various forms such as patented technology and technical standards. By the end of 2022, TCL Huaxing had granted more than 22,000 patents and applied for more than 14,000 PCT international patents.
The obvious improvement of the "gold content" of intellectual property rights is one of the characteristics of the high-quality development of intellectual property rights in China in recent years. As the first country in the world with the effective number of domestic invention patents exceeding 3 million, the effective number of invention patents in China ranks first in the world. By the end of 2022, the number of high-value invention patents reached 1.324 million, accounting for more than 40% of the effective invention patents; China has 9.4 high-value invention patents per 10,000 population, and domestic enterprises have 968,000 high-value invention patents; The average maintenance period of domestic high-value effective invention patents is 8.3 years, and the number of effective invention patents with a maintenance period of more than 10 years reaches 444,000.
"China is changing from a big country that introduces intellectual property rights to a big country that creates intellectual property rights, and intellectual property work is changing from pursuing quantity to improving quality." The relevant person in charge of China National Intellectual Property Administration said that China National Intellectual Property Administration will continue to implement the Outline of Building a Powerful Country with Intellectual Property Rights (2021— "2035)" and "The 14th Five-Year Plan for the Protection and Application of Intellectual Property Rights" put quality in a more prominent position, cultivate more high-value core patents, accelerate the realization of "two transformations", and help the high-quality development of economy and society with the high-quality development of intellectual property rights.
The public service of intellectual property rights was further optimized, and the accessibility and convenience were improved.
In 2022, the extracorporeal membrane oxygenator jointly developed by department of mechanical engineering, Tsinghua University, Tsinghua University Institute of Precision Medicine and Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Tsinghua, Beijing, successfully achieved a small batch of prototype and successfully completed the animal pre-experiment. In addition to independent innovation in core mechanism and design, key materials and coating technology, with the help of Tianjin Center for Patent Examination and Cooperation of China National Intellectual Property Administration Patent Office, the team also made independent patent layout and cultivated a series of high-value patents, which laid the foundation for subsequent productization.
In order to increase the support for patent examination of key industries and major scientific research projects, China National Intellectual Property Administration provides priority examination, centralized examination, roving examination and other services, strictly authorizes patent examination, and further improves the quality and efficiency of patent examination.
In recent years, the public service of intellectual property rights has been further optimized, and the accessibility and convenience have been improved. Intellectual property public service institutions have achieved full coverage at the provincial level, and the coverage rate of comprehensive public service institutions at the prefecture and city levels has exceeded 40%; Newly open 11 kinds of intellectual property data, basically realize "should be open as much as possible", and increase the number of standardized data types allocated to local service outlets to 53; The national intellectual property service agencies have absorbed more than 928,000 employees.
In order to better contribute to scientific and technological innovation, the intellectual property department has continuously strengthened the construction of intellectual property information and intelligent infrastructure with the aim of facilitating the people and benefiting the people. On January 11th this year, China National Intellectual Property Administration "Patent Business Handling System" was officially launched. The system provides "one-stop" service for the applicant’s business such as invention patent, utility model patent, design patent, PCT international patent application and Hague appearance patent application, and also adds business types such as patent evaluation report and withdrawal of patent application, and provides information gadgets to improve the writing efficiency of application documents. In just four days, the system received 25,000 new applications and 54,000 procedural documents.
Finding a breakthrough for innovation and adding new kinetic energy to the industry has become an important mission for the development of intellectual property in the future. Shen Changyu, director of China National Intellectual Property Administration, said that in the future, we will vigorously strengthen the legal protection of intellectual property rights, promote the formation of a basic system to support comprehensive innovation, better support key core technology research, promote the deep integration of patent chain with innovation chain, industrial chain, capital chain and talent chain, and help realize high-level scientific and technological self-reliance.