Intellectual property protection continues to increase
From 2008 to 2017, the number of new cases of first-instance IPRs received by courts across the country increased from 25,000 to more than 200,000, with an average annual increase of over 20%; 3 IPR courts were established, and knowledge was set up at 16 intermediate courts in Nanjing and other cities. The property court, intellectual property civil, administrative, and criminal trial 'triple play' were fully promoted across the country's courts. Judicial standards became increasingly uniform, and the amount of awards increased significantly. From 2008 to 2017, public security agencies cracked down on infringement of intellectual property rights and production and sales. There were more than 223,000 counterfeit and inferior crimes, involving a total value of 154.95 billion yuan. From 2008 to 2017, the national customs had seized more than 236,000 batches of infringing goods for import and export, involving 1.58 billion infringing goods, with a value of nearly RMB 4.08 billion. The General Administration of Customs has accumulatively approved more than 50,000 IPR customs protection records.
The protection of intellectual property rights has been comprehensively strengthened, protection has continued to increase, and the timeliness of protection has continued to increase. Openness and transparency have been applied to all types of market players, and the pattern of intellectual property protection for 'strict protection, major protection, rapid protection, and protection' is being formed. Intensive national defense of 'doubles', 'thunderstorm', 'skynet', 'escort', 'lightning', 'breeze', 'longteng', 'jianjian', 'backtracking', 'smashing famous brand' and other intellectual property protection Special action.
The multi-protection mechanism for intellectual property rights has been continuously developed, and rapid review has been promoted as a whole, rights have been quickly confirmed, and rights protection has been coordinated and coordinated quickly. The National Intellectual Property Protection Center has approved the establishment of 19, rapid rights protection centers have reached 17, and IPRs report complaints and rights protection assistance service network is basically established. Covering the whole country, the IPR mediation mechanism has been further improved. The IP arbitration mediation work has been carried out in depth. More than 10 specialized intellectual property arbitration institutions have been set up nationwide. The Chinese intellectual property notary service platform has been opened.
Increased use of intellectual property
Promoting the establishment of a “four-in-one” intellectual property operation service system of “platform, organization, capital, and industry”. The Beijing National Public Service Platform for Intellectual Property Operations, Xi'an Military-Medium Integration Pilot Platform and Zhuhai Financial Innovation Pilot Platform have been put into operation. Property rights operating platform system basically formed.
We will energetically cultivate high-value core patents to improve the core competitiveness of the industry and boost the high-quality development of the economy. In 2017, 20 Chinese Patent Gold Awards, 5 External Design Gold Awards and 870 Excellent Awards were selected, and gold award-winning projects achieved new sales. 939 billion yuan.
Intellectual property transactions have become increasingly active, and the number of patents, trademarks, and licenses in China has steadily increased. New models for the use of intellectual property continue to emerge. New forms of business such as intellectual property collection, storage, operations, pledges, insurance, trusteeship, alliances, equity investment, and auctions are in the ascendant. Patents, trademarks, and copyright pledge loans have developed rapidly. The scale has exceeded 100 billion yuan, effectively solving the financing difficulties for a group of light and medium-sized enterprises.
Continuous improvement of intellectual property management capabilities
The ability to review patents and trademarks has been greatly improved. A review collaboration center has been established. The review period has been significantly shortened, the period for patents for inventions has stabilized at 22 months, and the period for trademark registration review has been shortened from the legal 9 months to 8 months.
The intellectual property management capabilities of innovative entities and market players continue to increase. The national standards for the management of intellectual property rights in enterprises, institutions of higher learning, and scientific research organizations have been promulgated. 26,000 enterprises have implemented the standards for intellectual property management.
Efforts will be made to promote the building of powerful intellectual property enterprises, and efforts will be made to cultivate more intellectual property demonstrations and competitive enterprises, and to solidify the foundation for the development of strong countries.