Name of party: beijing intellectual property patent agency (general partnership)
Unified social credit code: 9111008 ma7dfft9x
Address: 905, 9th floor, 18th floor, zhuo su north street, beijing city house
Implementing partner: liu chen hua
Partners: liu chen huai, yuan huiji
From july 2022 to december 2023, in the context of the quality monitoring of patent applications, our bureau found that the presence of agents was not an act of an irregular patent application for the purpose of protecting innovation. It was found that the representation of the parties was particularly large under article ii of the act regulating the conduct of patent applications (official gazette no. 41 of the national intellectual property authority)。
On 1 july 2025, our bureau served the person in question with the notice of administrative punishment of the national intellectual property agency (securities of the state). No. 17, which informs the person of the facts, reasons, grounds and content of the penalties to be imposed by the administrative penalty and to be included in the list of serious breaches of trust for the supervision of the market, as well as the rights of the person concerned. Upon receipt of the notice, the party submits a request for a hearing within the legal time limit。
On 22 august 2025, our bureau held a hearing in accordance with the law. The main hearings of the parties were as follows: 1. The parties had cooperated in withdrawing the irregular patent application; 2. 179 of those applications had been successful and the parties had complained; 3. The party's representative's irregular patent application had been based on the technical material provided by the applicant and the parties had provided the technical submission of 220 of the irregular patent application。
As a result of this study, our bureau does not accept the hearing of the parties. The reasons for this are as follows: 1. The withdrawal by the party occurred mostly after our notification that the number of abnormal patent applications on behalf of the party was particularly large and, although withdrawn, did not alter the harmful consequences of the serious disruption of the patent review process; 2. It was verified that the 179 above-mentioned irregular patent applications had not been successful; 3. The submission by the party of 220 technical submissions on the basis of an irregular patent application did not prove to have been provided by the applicant and was not sufficient to demonstrate that the patent application was based on real invention activity。
In conclusion, our bureau considers that the particularly large number of irregular patent applications that are not intended for the purpose of protection of innovation by a person who is unmanageable, seriously disrupting patent work and the order of patent examination proceedings, constitute an offence under article 51, subparagraphs (b) and (d), of the act on the regulation of patent agents and constitute an offence under article 25, paragraph 1 (e), of the patent agents ordinance, which is committed “by omission with serious consequences”。
Pursuant to article 25, paragraph 1, of the patent agents ordinance, the following penalties have been decided:
The license of the patent agency of the patent agency (general partnership) of the beijing intellectual property patent company was revoked。
The above-mentioned acts fall within the meaning of article 9, paragraph 2, of the act on the control of serious mistrust lists for the supervision of markets “to engage in serious unlawful patent and trademark agency activity”, and pursuant to articles 2 and 12 of the act on the regulation of the control of serious mistrust lists for the control of markets, the decision was taken to include the beijing company of intellectual property patents (general partnership) on the list of serious mistrust lists for the supervision of markets, to publicize them through the national system for the disclosure of credit information for enterprises and to implement the corresponding regulatory measures. The period for inclusion was from 30 september 2025 to 29 september 2028. Upon expiry of one year, the person concerned may apply to the agency for the early removal of the list of serious breach and breach of trust under articles 16 and 17 of the act on the control of serious mistrust lists in the management of market supervision, to stop publicizing the relevant information and to lift the corresponding regulatory measures。
Within 30 days from the date of receipt of the decision on penalties, the person concerned shall notify the client of the termination of the commissioning contract, the proper handling of the outstanding business and the procedure for the cancellation of the licence of the patent agent to practise the profession. If the person concerned is not in agreement with this decision, he or she may, within 60 days from the date of receipt of the decision, apply to the national intellectual property authority for administrative review in accordance with the law, or within six months from the date of receipt of the decision, initiate administrative proceedings before a competent people's court. During the review and proceedings, the decision was not suspended。
National intellectual property agency
30 september 2025
