The creation and protection of intellectual property rights by xinhua on december 13, beijing (reporter xiaotai tan, zhang quan) is the driving force behind social innovation. Journalists were informed at the nineteenth china patent award conference, held in kyoto in 13 august, that the number of patent applications for inventions in the first 10 months of the year had reached 1,042,000, representing an increase of 5. 8 per cent over the previous year; and that pct international patent applications had received 39,000, representing an increase of 11. 3 per cent over the same period, with a high level of innovation in society and a strong atmosphere。
Speaking at the meeting, the director-general of the national intellectual property authority (nip) said that the new world scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation were on the rise and that the trend towards innovation was more pronounced. The role of intellectual property rights (iprs) has become more prominent as a central element of basic security to stimulate innovation, strategic resources for development and competitiveness。
Since this year, my country has made many new advances and breakthroughs in various areas of intellectual property creation, protection, application, regulation and international cooperation. In january-october, the total number of cases handled by the national patent administration was 34,000, an increase of 19. 8 per cent over the same period, and the number of intellectual property protection centres and fast-track defence centres reached 29; patent pledge financing amounted to 53. 2 billion yuan, an increase of 73 per cent over the same period; six places, such as changsha, shenzhen and others, were officially launching a pilot reform of integrated intellectual property management to explore more efficient integrated intellectual property management systems. The national intellectual property authority has also signed an agreement with the world intellectual property organization to strengthen the “one way forward” intellectual property cooperation, and cambodia became the first country to recognize the results of china's patent authorization in its own country。
The selection of the chinese patent award has played a significant role in stimulating innovative entrepreneurship and promoting economic and social development throughout society. It has been learned that the current china patent award has selected 20 chinese patent gold awards, 5 chinese foreign view design gold awards, 802 chinese patent excellence awards and 68 chinese foreign view design awards. According to incomplete statistics, from the date of implementation of the 25 patent gold prize-related products or projects until the end of 2016, new sales amounted to $93. 9 billion, new profits to $9. 6 billion and new exports to $24. 4 billion。
