On 23 january, the press office of the state council held a press conference. At the meeting, the relevant head of the national intellectual property agency presented the work done in recent years to improve the quality of patents。
At the launch, rae wenzheng, deputy director of the national intellectual property agency, stated that patent quality was an important indicator of the level of innovation, the healthy development of lifelines, the melody and hard tasks of the patent industry. In recent years, the national intellectual property agency has adhered to the principle of quality first and priority of benefits, putting in place a combination of “boxing” in areas such as policy optimization, review of practices, industry governance, etc., from the application, agent and review end, thus contributing to a steady improvement in the quality of patents and to the efficiency of the whole chain。
Launch site (source: new national network)
Rae wenzheng further explained that the “14-5” planning indicator had been adjusted to “high-value invention patent ownership per 10,000 population”, emphasizing the practical value and technical content of patents, and that the “155” programme would further optimize the indicator by giving greater emphasis to quality orientation and serving as a “command stick”. (b) to encourage local authorities to eliminate all forms of financial support for patent applications and authorizations and to resolutely correct the “quantity-only” trend. At the same time, the nine-sector joint communication explicitly requires that patent applications, authorized numbers, etc., should not be directly used as the main conditions for talent evaluation, institutional evaluation, project evaluation, business identification, job title evaluation, university evaluation, etc., to highlight the value of conversion and industrialization prospects. Directing higher education and scientific institutions to establish a system of pre-application evaluation that “assesssssssssssssssssssss before filing”, pre-empts low-quality patent applications. Establishment of a system of protection lists for accurate services in patent applications, providing quality representation services for patent applications。
With regard to efforts to improve the quality of reviews, rae wenzheng indicated that efforts to combat patent applications that violate the principles of good faith had been prioritized for many years by the national intellectual property agency. (c) strict licensing of patent reviews, enhancement of creative evaluation of invention patents, introduction of visible creative examination of practical new patents and visible differentiated review of outward design patents, effective improvement of the quality of authorizations and more than 95 per cent closure of invention patent reviews. Changes to the patent review guide with a view to strict authorization criteria. The online patent smart review system has improved the quality of patent reviews through technological innovation。
In addition, strict industry regulation revolves around. The integrated governance of the intellectual property agent industry has continued to be strengthened through successive years of intensive blue sky operations. At present, the national intellectual property agency is also working with the ministry of public security and the general directorate of market supervision on a special overhaul of the intellectual property agency sector, to accurately combat serious violations of the law, to clean up all suspected “mounted” persons, to strengthen the management of the platform's enterprises, to tighten access to the agency industry, to strengthen the agency's self-regulation and to promote the quality of its development。
