In the first half of 2017, the number of international patent applications under the PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty) submitted by Chinese applicants through the State Intellectual Property Office reached 200,000, an increase of 15.3% over the same period of last year. The PCT international patent application status report released by the World Intellectual Property Organization , ZTE ranked No. 1 in the global business with 4,123 PCT international patent applications and Huawei ranked second with 3,692 applications.
Chen Hongbing, director of the World Intellectual Property Office in China, said that Chinese enterprises need to pay close attention to risks in two aspects. First, they do not inadvertently infringe the rights of others because they do not understand overseas intellectual property rights. Second, their own intellectual property rights No effective overseas layout, suffered infringement by others.
In order to effectively ensure the overseas rights and interests of enterprises, SIPO has conducted a great deal of work around the overseas acquisition and safeguard of the rights of the enterprises. It has successively signed the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Agreement with the Patent Examination Bodies in 23 Countries and Regions, and the PPH Cooperation The network is already established. The establishment of a mutual fund for overseas rights protection of Chinese enterprises in intellectual property rights will provide financial protection for the protection of overseas intellectual property rights of enterprises. The establishment of a professional overseas IP information platform will provide a reference for enterprises to go global.