The results of a survey recently published by china's state intellectual property administration indicate that the social satisfaction of intellectual property protection in china rose from 63. 69 points in 2012 to 80. 05 points in 2020, a record high. China's efforts and effectiveness in protecting intellectual property rights are fully recognized by the international community. China has strengthened intellectual property protection and created a more market-based, rule-of-law and international investment climate for foreign investors and foreign investors. Last year, china became the largest foreign investor in the world, with a record volume and global share。
Increasing intellectual property protection
Increased attractiveness to fdi
Over the past year, china has consistently stepped up its efforts to combat fraud and abuse while promoting disease prevention and economic and social development in a comprehensive manner. The china business environment survey 2021 was published by the united states chamber of commerce. “in this year's survey, most united states firms are optimistic about china's market environment and have confidence in the future of china.” the president of the chinese american chamber of commerce, bill allen, said。
The united states of america, inc., is one of the foreign firms with the most patented inventions in china. According to mark snyder, senior vice-president and deputy general counsel of chase, the company is expanding its intellectual property investment in china。
The teretz group of france, which has been developing in china for more than 40 years, has established a number of joint ventures in the areas of orbital traffic, air traffic management, aviation and electronics, and has signed technical licensing and cooperation agreements with chinese partners. “china has improved its intellectual property protection system and created a favourable environment for foreign investment, including thérèse, to develop further technology licensing and cooperation in china.” the vice-president of the north asia region of the teretz group and the president of the china region, bejehong, expressed their deep appreciation for the fact that multinational enterprises were invited to participate in industry standard-setting and legal and regulatory consultations, which highlighted china's commitment to innovative and sound property rights mechanisms and its commitment to creating a world-class business environment。
The foreign investment act and its implementing regulations, which had been in force since 2020, had facilitated continuous high-technology cooperation and localized innovation in teretz in china. In bejhong's view, the new legislation places greater emphasis on intellectual property rights and technical cooperation and on safeguarding legitimate interests, such as those of foreign investors。
With the introduction of a series of policy regulations to enhance intellectual property protection and optimize the business environment, china's attractiveness to foreign investment has increased significantly. By 2020, china had established 51,000 new foreign investment enterprises, attracting 4. 5 per cent more foreign investment and becoming the largest foreign investor in the world。
Patents for high-value inventions
Driven by global innovation
In 2020, china received more than 1. 2 million patent applications for inventions and authorized more than 500,000, the highest in the world. China also leads the world in terms of the number of international patent applications for patent cooperation treaties。
Data released by the european patent office early this year show that 13,432 patent applications were received from china in 2020, representing an increase of 9. 9 per cent over the previous year, the fastest increase among major patent applicants. In an interview with the journalist for the paper, antonio campinos, director of the european patent office, stated that china had increased its intellectual property protection, that its level of innovation had increased rapidly and that its capacity to innovate had continued to grow. “china's state intellectual property administration has become one of the five largest patent offices in the world, reflecting china's unremitting efforts to promote research and development and demonstrating china's dynamic economy of innovation. China has become a major driver of global innovation.”
For the first time, the “xiv-v” programme incorporated “proprietary ownership of high-value inventions per 10,000 people” into the main indicators of economic and social development. Cloud computing, big data, physical networking, block chains, artificial intelligence, etc. Are among the priority industries of the digital economy. “china emphasizes the high value of patenting inventions, a very important indicator that will drive high-quality economic development with innovation, and we have confidence in the high-quality development of the chinese economy.” bejhong said。
In the world intellectual property organization (wipo) report on the global innovation index 2020, published jointly by cornell university and the european institute of business administration, china has risen to fourteenth place in the list of innovation capabilities, ranking first among middle-income economies. According to the world intellectual property organization evaluation, china ranks among the top 15 global innovation indices for two years in a row, becoming a truly “global innovation leader”. According to the director-general of the organization, deng hongsen, china's innovation has benefited from china's increasingly improved policy, implementation and evaluation of intellectual property protection, from the dynamism and resilience of mass innovation in popular entrepreneurship and from the creation of a more open environment for innovation。
Increased cooperation between countries along the way
Promoting improved global governance systems
According to data published by china's state intellectual property administration, in 2020, countries and territories along the “one way” increased their patent allocation in china, with 23,000 patent applications for inventions in china, representing an increase of 3. 9 per cent over the previous year。
The deputy professor, lee guang yeo school of public policy, national university of singapore, gu qingyang, said: “services are an important area for building the `across the road' together. The above data reflect, in part, china's promotion of a deeper integration of advanced manufacturing and modern services, accelerating the development of productive services and promoting industrial restructuring.”
“china's international trade cooperation with countries and territories along the `road' is growing. The increase in patent applications in china demonstrates their confidence in china's continuous optimization of the business environment.” for many years, frederik baldan, chief executive officer of sabeth central europe business consulting, belgium, has been engaged in business consulting in central europe and has a deep sense of china's measures to protect intellectual property rights and optimize the business environment。
At present, the state intellectual property administration of china has established formal cooperation with more than 40 countries along the “across the road” route. China's patents have been recognized in a larger number of countries through intensive cooperation with regional organizations such as the patent office of the cooperation council for the arab states of the gulf, asean and euro-asian patent office. The regional comprehensive economic partnership agreement (rcep), signed in november last year, will also promote greater cooperation on intellectual property rights between china and countries and regions along the “one way”。
The world intellectual property organization (wipo) centre for arbitration and conciliation in shanghai began its substantive operation last year and has so far successfully managed to channel a number of foreign-related intellectual property disputes. “today, the system of global governance faces serious challenges, and international cooperation on intellectual property rights and the multilateral system of intellectual property rights are important elements in advancing the global system of governance.” chongyan stated that enhanced cooperation with partners along the `one way' in intellectual property rights would help to improve the system of international governance of intellectual property rights and raise the overall level of protection of intellectual property rights in the countries concerned, “it is important to promote the sharing of science and technology and knowledge among partners and contribute to building a community of human destiny.”。
