According to Pan Xinsheng, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Intellectual Property Office and spokesman of the Ministry of Information, at the end of last year, Beijing successfully applied for the establishment of the China (Beijing) Intellectual Property Protection Center and the China (Zhongguancun) Intellectual Property Protection Center, which is currently preparing for the plan. The center focuses on the next generation of information technology, high-end equipment manufacturing, new materials and bio-pharmaceutical industries. The main function is to develop the service industry as the goal, and to focus on the rapid and coordinated protection of intellectual property rights, to achieve rapid review of patent applications and to quickly determine the rights. Rapid rights protection, intellectual property protection collaboration, coordination of patent navigation and operations.
Specifically, in terms of the right of patent examination and determination, the “green channel” for patent rapid review will be opened, the period of patent examination can be shortened from about one year to six months, and the protection of industrial technological innovation results will be faster and more convenient.” Pan Xinsheng Said that the two centers will also actively develop cooperation in the protection of intellectual property rights, effectively reduce the cost of rights protection, and carry out intellectual property operation services with industrial characteristics, which will play a catalytic role in Beijing's construction of a 'highly sophisticated' economic structure.
According to the information released at the conference, the number of intellectual property creations in the city continued to grow in 2017. The number of patent applications was approximately 186,000, an increase of 4.75% year-on-year; the number of invention patent applications reached approximately 99,000, an increase of 1.8% year-on-year. 10.7 million pieces, an increase of 4.5% year-on-year; invention patents amounted to approximately 46,000 pieces, an increase of 11.3% year-on-year. The number of registered trademarks was 1,133,700, an increase of 25.79% year-on-year; software copyright registrations were approximately 125,000, an increase of 51.6% year-on-year.
According to statistics, the number of invention patents in Beijing in 2017 was 94.6, ranking the first in the country. Meanwhile, 511 new plant variety applications were received in Beijing last year, including Pinggu Datao, Daxing Watermelon, Yanshan Chestnut and other geographical indications. 11