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Today, we ushered in the 18th World Intellectual Property Day. As we all know, the communications industry is a standard-oriented technology industry, and patents play an important role.
In recent years, many telecommunications industry companies have attached importance to intellectual property rights, and their global patent rankings have continuously risen. However, on the one hand, many Chinese companies are also frequently harassed by patents. Patent competition has become the focus of corporate competition.
Build a patent moat
More and more companies are aware of the value of innovation. They are reflected in their investment in research and development, and their emphasis on patents.
The data show that in 2017, the amount of intellectual property creation in China increased. The annual patent applications for invention reached 1.382 million, an increase of 14.2% year-on-year, ranking the first in the world for seven years in a row; The number of PCT international patent applications received was 51,000, a year-on-year increase. 12.5%, ranks second in the world; the number of patents invented per 10,000 population reached 9.8. The number of applications for trademark registration received 5.748 million, an increase of 5.72% year-on-year, ranking first in the world for 16 years in a row. The cumulative number of valid trademark registrations was 14.92 million. The number of applications for international trademark registration for Madrid trademarks submitted by applicants in China was 4,810, ranking third in the world. Works, computer software copyright registrations reached 2.002 million and 745,400, respectively, a year-on-year increase of 25.15% and 82.79%, respectively.
In 2017, the top ten enterprises for invention patent grants in China (excluding Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) were: State Grid Corporation of China (3622), Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (3293), China Petrochemical Corporation (2567) , BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd. (1845), ZTE Corporation (1699), Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd. (1454), Zhuhai Gree Electric Co., Ltd. (1273), Guangdong Oupo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd. The company (1222 pieces), China National Petroleum Corporation (1008 pieces) and SMIC International (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (862 pieces).
Last year, Huawei, LeTV, ZTE, Guangdong Oupo, and Xiaomi ranked the top ten in China's invention patent applications.
Four characteristics of invention patents
According to the relevant person in charge of the State Intellectual Property Office in the press briefing at the beginning of the year, the data relating to the invention patents of China in 2017 mainly presented four characteristics.
First, there was a steady flow of patent creation. The number of domestic invention patent applications and authorizations increased by 15.4% and 8.2% respectively from 2016; the number of invention patents per 10,000 population reached 9.8, an increase of 1.8 from the end of 2016.
Second, the dominant position of domestic enterprises' innovation has been further consolidated. The proportion of companies in domestic invention patent applications and ownership has reached 63.3% and 66.4%, respectively, and the contribution of the company to the growth of domestic invention patent applications has reached 73.5%.
Third, China’s enterprises’ ability to deploy overseas patents has been continuously enhanced. In 2017, there were 44 domestic companies that submitted more than 100 PCT international patent applications in the year, an increase of 18 from 2016.
Fourth, the gap between patent layout and foreign countries in some areas. Among the 35 technology areas divided by the World Intellectual Property Organization, the number of domestic invention patents in 2017 was higher than that of foreign invention patents in China, up to 30, compared to 2016. One more, but from the perspective of maintaining the number of invention patents held for more than 10 years, the number of domestic still in the 29 technical fields is less than that of foreign countries.
In response, experts in the industry said that it is necessary to soberly realize that patents are not just competitions but quality of competitions. Wang Lei, the Intellectual Property Development Research Center of the State Intellectual Property Office, said in an interview with the “Communications Industry News” (Net). According to the characteristics of the communications industry patents, according to the order of importance, the underlying technology, the standard framework technology, and the application technology guaranteed to be realized. The deficiency in the underlying technology patents is the most urgent problem to be solved in the future development of China's communications industry.
Tao Xinliang, a professor at the Institute of Intellectual Property at Shanghai University, said that the overall improvement of patents in China's communications industry does not come overnight. He said that there is a one-sided pursuit of performance projects in intellectual property strategy, and the pursuit of quality must be pursued from the pursuit of quantity in intellectual property strategy. To change, we should grasp the direction of future core technologies.