On 25 april, the ten great events on intellectual property in shenzhen city in 2023 were officially launched at the shenzhen intellectual property working conference and joint meeting on intellectual property in 2024。
The ten great events of intellectual property rights in shenzhen city in 2023 screened 71 representative ipr events at the public call stage, resulting in the selection of the most typical, pioneering and leading “ten events” in 2023, covering government intellectual property policy measures, intellectual property stories of innovation subjects, high-profile achievements, representative initiatives and typical cases, and presented a synthesis of the advantages and effectiveness of intellectual property innovation in shenzhen city。
1. Construction of cities in shenzhen city in the first national intellectual property protection model areas (regions)
In 2023, shenzhen city was identified as the first national intellectual property protection model area to build cities (regions), published the shenzhen city national intellectual property protection model zone building programme, and proposed a total of 21 initiatives, including the establishment by 2025 of an integrated governance model, a full chain protection model, a cluster of innovation elements and a “four-block lead” city for cross-border cooperation。
“commercial secrets protection” for shenzhen comprehensive reform pilot innovation initiative and typical experience
In 2023, shenzhen issued guidelines for the construction of compliance with the commercial secret criminal protection system (preliminary) and promoted the development of a code for the management of business secrets in scientific research institutions, the establishment of the “office for the monitoring of intellectual property offences and co-operation and co-ordination and liaison”, the establishment of the “standard for the protection of business secrets in the gulf of gold”, the launching of the “strengthening of business secrets to the service” and the expansion of the pilot scope of commercial secrecy protection from the southern mountains to the city as a whole. The pilot innovative initiative and typical experience of the shenzhen comprehensive reform, entitled “communication secrets protection”, was replicated throughout the country by the national development commission。
3. Shenzhen city's first pilot project on the standardization of intellectual property public services
In 2023, shenzhen started the first pilot project in the country to standardize urban construction of intellectual property public services. Publication of the first departmental and municipal guides on intellectual property public service matters, with a focus on the publication of 33 guides on intellectual property public service matters in six major categories; online operation of the shenzhen city public service platform for intellectual property information, which brings together over 170 million intellectual property data globally. High-quality intellectual property public services provide the bottom line of support and effective safeguards for sti and high-quality intellectual property development。
4. Deep harbours to work together to create innovative highlands for intellectual property rights at former deep harbours
In 2023, the zone authority for cooperation in modern services at the former deep sea port in shenzhen city and the department of commerce and economic development of the government of the hong kong sar jointly issued the 16 measures for co-facilitating the innovative highlands of intellectual property rights in the former deep sea port, which helped hong kong to build the regional intellectual property trade centre and supported the development of the innovative highlands of intellectual property cooperation in the former deep sea port. (c) the establishment of the deep harbor intellectual property business coalition, which is dedicated to promoting the transfer of scientific and technological results and transactions in intellectual property。
5. For the first time, the city of shenzhen initiated an efficient and coordinated trial of patent administration and judicial infringement
In 2023, the centre for the protection of intellectual property in china (shenzhen) and the intellectual property court of the intermediate people's court of shenzhen city actively explored the joint initiative of the department of review and ineffectiveness of the patent office of the state intellectual property office to conduct, for the first time in shenzhen, an efficient and coordinated trial of patent administration and judicial infringement. The interface between the patent determination administrative procedure and the patent infringement proceedings has improved the effectiveness of intellectual property dispute resolution。
6. Shenzhen city intermediate people's court concluded the first case of an improper competition dispute involving a breach of data quality assurance obligations by a corporate correspondence data platform
In the case of the second instance in which the information was published on the business platform that had previously informed the defendant of its operation was not in accordance with the actual circumstances and resulted in damage to the plaintiff's data rights and interests, the municipal intermediate court applied creatively the general provisions of the anti-improper competition act, for the first time introducing the obligation of completeness of the user of the letter data, the obligation of data accuracy, the obligation of reasonable correction, finding that the defendant had failed to take reasonable measures to correct the discrepancy in the letter platform, breached the obligation of reasonable correction, caused damage to the plaintiff's competition rights and interests, constituted an improper competition, decided to set aside the first instance judgement and ordered the defendant to amend the platform information, publish a statement and compensate the plaintiff for reasonable defence expenses。
7. The shenzhen market supervision authority investigated violations of the mi-pa series case
Minami mark holder, mitech limited v. Three companies sold tablet computers with the words “mi pie” in their description of the commodity without their permission. As a result of the investigation, the shenzhen city market supervisory authority found that the three companies had acted in violation of trademark rights under article 57, paragraph 2 of the trademark act, that the illegal amount of business was equal to the proceeds of sales, that administrative penalties had been imposed on three companies, and that they had been fined $30,000,000, and that their licences had been revoked。
8. Southern mountain prosecutor's office v. Liu xiao's criminal public interest proceedings for the sale of merchandises counterfeiting registered marks
In 2023, the public prosecutor's office of the south mountain region filed a criminal and incidental civil service suit with the court of the south mountain region, alleging a total of 177,623. 2 yuan for the sale of child and child-specific goods in violation of the legitimate rights and interests of minors, knowing that the sale was a fake registered trademark and did not meet national standards for food safety. In its first instance judgement, the south mountain court upheld all the requests of the prosecutor's office of the south mountain region, sentenced liu to one or ten months ' imprisonment for the sale of counterfeit registered trademarks, sentenced liu to triple damages for damage to the public good, $135,452. 4, and publicly apologized in the national press. The case was successfully selected for the 2024 supreme review of public interest prosecutions for the defence of consumer interests in the “3/15” and the 2024 guangdong province public interest prosecutions。
9. Global cross-licensing agreement between china and mi
In 2023, china announced a global patent cross-licensing agreement with mi, covering communications technology, including 5gs. The conclusion of patent cross-licensing agreements fully reflects the respect of chinese enterprises for each other's intellectual property rights and the mutual recognition of the value of intellectual property rights。
10. Shenzhen city, gao new investment guarantee co. Ltd. Issued the first issue of the country's intellectual property securitization product on the theme of the river deep harbor science, technology and innovation cooperative zone
In 2023, the shenzhen city new investment finance guarantee co. Ltd. Launched at shenzhen stock exchange the “standing deep harbor zone for science, technology and innovation — safe securities — high new investment in intellectual property asset support” which marked the official landing of the country's first intellectual property securitization product, with the river zone for science, technology and innovation at its core, with a total of rmb 58 million for the current period, with a credit rating of aaaa for a period of one year. This intellectual property securitization product provides practical experience in exploring deeper models of cross-border intellectual property securitization in shenzhen。
