In 2023, 9. 21 million invention patents were granted
The protection of intellectual property rights in our country continues to increase
New zealand held a press conference on 24 april to provide information on the construction of china's intellectual property power in 2023. The director-general of the national intellectual property authority, shin longyun, stated that, in 2023, intellectual property-related departments were following up on the deployment of party central and state council decisions and accelerating progress in building a strong intellectual property power, providing strong support for high-quality development。
In 2023, the quality of intellectual property creation in our country rose. Over the year, 921,000 invention patents were authorized, an increase of 15. 3 per cent over the same year. The number of registered trademarks was 4,383,000, the number of geographical marker products was 13, the number of collective trademarks was approved and 201 were certified. The integrated circuit layout design was registered in 11,000 copies. The number of copyrights for works and computer software increased by 42. 3 per cent and 36. 0 per cent, respectively. :: 8385 new varieties of agricultural plants and 915 new varieties of forest grass plants. In the global innovation index 2023 report published by the world intellectual property organization (wipo), my country has 24 of the world's most powerful science and technology clusters, making its first leap forward。
Intellectual property conversion uses accelerated propulsion. The office of the state council published the special action programme for the application of patent conversion (2023-2025), which promotes patent conversion and industrialization. For the first time, the industrialization of the patent for inventions in our country has exceeded 50 per cent and has been growing for five consecutive years. The total number of registered deposits of patent trademarks amounted to $85,399 million, an increase of 75. 4 per cent over the previous year. The amount of the pledge of copyright amounted to 9. 86 billion yuan, an increase of 80. 8 per cent over the previous year. The annual import and export of intellectual property charges totalled 376. 520 billion yuan. 17,000 licences were obtained through the patent open licensing pilot。
The protection of intellectual property rights has continued to increase, with the first 10 national model intellectual property protection zones having been built and the second 15 selected. The total number of national intellectual property protection centres and fast-track defence centres is 112. 44,000 patent trademark offences were investigated throughout the year, 68,000 patent infringement disputes were handled, and 4745 copyright infringement piracy cases were investigated. Seizure of 62,000 shipments of goods suspected of import/export abuse and approval of 19,000 cases of intellectual property customs protection. 490,000 intellectual property cases were concluded. :: processing and prosecution of 31,000 offences against intellectual property and supervision of more than 2,500 cases of civil administrative proceedings against intellectual property. Forty thousand criminal offences against intellectual property and the sale of counterfeit goods were investigated. Social satisfaction with intellectual property protection has risen to 82. 04 points and is then higher。
(d) expedite the development of a programme for the construction of a system of intellectual property protection. Shin long rain mentioned that this year's report on the government's work was devoted to strengthening intellectual property protection and developing policy initiatives to promote the conversion of scientific and technological results. The national intellectual property agency, in conjunction with eight ministries, is working to improve the intellectual property protection system and is accelerating the development of a programme for the implementation of the intellectual property protection system, a priority for the current year. The programme has now been signed by departments and will be published in the near future。
According to shin long rain: “the programme focuses on weaknesses in intellectual property protection and proposes a series of strong measures in terms of policy standards, empowerment, law enforcement justice, protection management, social co-governance, security governance, capacity support, etc. It is hoped that through the implementation of the construction of the intellectual property protection system, it will promote the institutionalization, specialization and facilitation of intellectual property protection, further strengthen the foundations of intellectual property protection and better shape a sound innovation and business environment.”
(c) further strengthen its overseas support for intellectual property rights. Long rains indicate that intellectual property rights (iprs) are central to the international competitiveness of enterprises and are increasingly the focus of international competition. In recent years, the national intellectual property agency has taken vigorous measures to help our enterprises defend their legitimate rights and interests in intellectual property rights abroad。
It was described that the national intellectual property administration, in conjunction with the china trade promotion and development association, had established the national centre for guidance on intellectual property dispute management abroad and had constructed 43 local sub-centres in 27 provinces (districts, municipalities) and set up work desks in countries and regions where there was a high level of trade to provide professional and efficient overseas advocacy services to enterprises. In 2023 alone, 1706 enterprises were directed to help them recover their economic losses of $6. 89 billion and to help them reduce their defence costs of $390 million. At the same time, the national intellectual property agency is continuously strengthening the collection and supply of information on intellectual property rights abroad, using its web-based platform, to regularly disseminate information on the legal provisions of intellectual property rights and risk warning in priority countries and regions, and to help enterprises keep abreast of the situation。
Shin long rain said: “in the next step, the national intellectual property agency, together with the relevant authorities, will further intensify its efforts to support the overseas defence of intellectual property rights and to improve the relevant institutional mechanisms.” (reporter wu moon fai)
