At a recent press conference organized by the state department's press office, the national intellectual property agency reported that in 2025, our patent transfer licences had been filed 697,000 times, an increase of 13. 7 per cent over the previous year, and that from january to november 2025, the country's total import and export of intellectual property user fees amounted to $38. 287 billion, an increase of 7. 4 per cent over the same period, with exports increasing 23. 1 per cent over the same period. These bright data represent a qualitative increase in the construction of intellectual property rights in our country and a steady movement towards a strong intellectual property power. It is also important to note that those achievements have been made possible by the active role that our system of intellectual property services has always played. From administrative reform to precision services in professional institutions, to concerted support from all sectors of society, intellectual property services are moving from passive processing to a proactive response, extending from a single chain to a full chain, infusing the dynamics of innovation-driven development。
Intellectual property services are an important bridge between innovation and the market, which is made up of public services in the government sector and market services in professional institutions. The former focus on registration authorization, market restructuring and policy promotion to build on the innovative base, while the latter serve to stimulate market dynamism by searching for advice, proxy applications, brokering transactions. The two work together across the chain of intellectual property rights created, applied, protected and managed. Since 2024, the national intellectual property agency has organized a nationwide “intellectual property services (ipss)” campaign on the theme “accelerating the promotion of patent industrialization and contributing to the development of new quality productivity”. More than 16,000 events have taken place in various regions, more than 200,000 enterprises have been involved, and more than 30,000 patents have been introduced in road shows。
Worldwide, the united states has built a full chain of intellectual property services covering rights, litigation and operations to securitization through highly developed market-based operating mechanisms, with annual revenues of over $144 billion in intellectual property user fees in the united states in 2024, far more than in other countries; the eu has focused more on building regional integration in intellectual property rights and supporting small and medium-sized enterprises (smes), significantly reducing the cost of intellectual property for enterprises. In contrast, the problem of the “largeness and weakness” of our intellectual property services remains, there is still a gap between the supply of services and market demand, and their effectiveness needs to be further enhanced. For example, in the public service, the lack of sufficient resources for government sector inputs and the lack of linkages between sectors have resulted in time-consuming hours for enterprises to consult on policy, conduct business and defend their rights; in the market service, some professional bodies have a single business structure and can only provide the most basic registered agency, leading to high competition for industry homogeneity. Completing the slab is key to further unleashing the dividends of innovation。
Improving the effectiveness of public services in the public sector, with emphasis on optimizing business processes. To make business more efficient, it is necessary to put “good people” into business processes, to use digital tools, to break barriers between sectors and to raise synergies. In practice, exploration has begun to bear fruit in some places. In jiangsu province, a series of “work-for-work” events have been held to organize teams of intellectual property experts to reach out to enterprises and help them face to face with practical problems; and the city of hangzhou, zhejiang province, has launched the “data three certificates co-registration” service, which brings together data intellectual property rights, data property rights and data asset registers, which were scattered across three sectors, into one platform. These practical initiatives reflect the overall goal of “efficient” and “facilitating” public services, making “linework” “active” and “work together” the norm for businesses to benefit from less。
It is also necessary to turn the scale of market services into an innovation element, to upgrade market services, to do wide business and to make big market “cakes”. Different resource-granted service providers should compete to explore realistic development paths based on talent reserves, business niches and size. For example, the expansion of high-value-added services such as patent breeding, strategic brand planning, risk warning, overseas layout, the active development of licensing, transfer and other trade-brokering operations, help enterprises to take advantage of intangible assets and promote efficient transformation of innovation upstream and downstream of the industrial chain。
Businesses, as consumers of intellectual property services, are “rollers” who test the quality of services. Intellectual property services work, and ultimately depend on whether the enterprise buys or doesn't. In choosing market services, enterprises should not focus solely on prices, but rather on services that best serve their own sound development, based on real demand and strategic planning. Through “foot votes”, it is possible to eliminate unsuitable services in the market and push the whole industry to achieve efficiency gains. In the public service, enterprises also have a supervisory role to play in responding to problems in the public service by actively filing complaints, providing feedback and making targeted recommendations to ensure that business processes in the sector are continuously optimized。
