Chang'e goes up to the heavens with wide sleeves, and the dragon dives into the deep sea. Since the 18th CPC National Congress, under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee, China's patent industry has achieved rapid development in terms of quantity and quality, providing strong support for accelerating the construction of an intellectual property powerhouse and promoting mass entrepreneurship and innovation.

        Better policies and regulations

Since the 18th CPC National Congress, China's relevant patent laws, regulations and policy system has been further improved, creating a good environment for entrepreneurship and innovation.

Reviewing the five years since the 18th CPC National Congress, favorable policies on promoting the development of the patent business have been frequently issued. at the end of 2015, the State Council on accelerating the construction of a strong country in intellectual property under the new situation issued several opinions, clearly put forward the implementation of patent quality improvement project, cultivate a number of core patents. 2016, the national "13th Five-Year" The planning outline explicitly lists patent ownership per 10,000 population as one of the major indicators of economic and social development, and the Thirteenth Five-Year National Plan for the Protection and Application of Intellectual Property Rights, issued by the State Council, again mentions improving patent quality and efficiency.

In the past 5 years, the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) has continuously strengthened the construction of patent laws, regulations and institutions, and actively promoted the legislative work in key areas such as the revision of the Patent Law and its implementing rules, the formulation of regulations on functional inventions, etc. The draft revision of the Patent Law (submitted for examination) was formed and submitted to the State Council, while the draft regulations on functional inventions (submitted for examination) and the draft regulations on patent agency (submitted for examination) were also submitted to the Legislative Affairs Office of the State Council. During the past five years, the State Intellectual Property Office also formulated and revised a series of policies and regulations, such as the Twelfth Five-Year Plan (2011-2015) for Patent Examination and the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan for the Development of the Patent Agency Industry, etc., and combined with the intellectual property system, the State Intellectual Property Office also formulated and revised a series of policies and regulations, such as the Twelfth Five-Year Plan (2011-2015) for Patent Examination and the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan for the Development of the Patent Agency Industry. The actual law enforcement work, issued the patent administrative law enforcement operation guide and other documents, effectively standardize the law enforcement work, improve the overall level of handling cases.

At the same time, the State Intellectual Property Office has strengthened policy guidance and public services, with the Notice of the State Intellectual Property Office on the Implementation of the Patent Navigation Pilot Project and the Opinions on Further Strengthening the Use and Protection of Intellectual Property Rights to Support Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and other policies and measures introduced intensively. At present, the State Intellectual Property Office is focusing on the implementation of patent quality improvement project, comprehensively promote the quality of patent creation, application, agency, examination, protection and application of the whole chain of each link, and accelerate the realization of patent creation from more to better and from bigger to stronger.

Since the 18th CPC National Congress, China's intellectual property development situation has entered a new stage of steady development. In terms of patents, the State Intellectual Property Office accepted 1.339 million invention patent applications in 2016, ranking first in the world for six consecutive years; the structure of patent applications was further optimized, with the proportion of invention patent applications exceeding 36%. In 2016, the number of invention patents per 10,000 population in China reached 8, up significantly from 3.23 in 2012. In the process, a large number of representative high-value patents have also emerged, helping the transformation of Made in China to "Created in China". For example, China's independently designed civil aircraft C919, with advanced patented new materials, new technologies, to make it soar into the blue sky.

In strengthening the use of patents, the State Intellectual Property Office led industries and localities to promote patent navigation and analysis and deliberation, implemented patent navigation pilot projects, and formulated and published the Guide for Intellectual Property Analysis and Deliberation. In 2016, China's patent pledge financing amounted to 43.6 billion yuan, and all kinds of key industries' intellectual property rights were also financed. The first phase of the operating fund raised 4.28 billion yuan, the economic benefits of patent application are becoming more and more remarkable, and its contribution to economic and social development is bright.

In the past 5 years, on the basis of improving laws and regulations, the State Intellectual Property Office has strengthened the administrative enforcement of patents, and resolutely cracked down on patent infringement and counterfeiting in the fields of people's livelihood and high technology, and actively carried out patent enforcement and rights protection in exhibitions, and vigorously promoted patent enforcement and rights protection in the field of e-commerce "lightning". Special operations. Statistics show that in 2016, the total number of patent administrative enforcement cases reached 48,916,000, an increase of 36.51 TP1T year-on-year. 13,123,000 patent enforcement cases in the field of e-commerce, an increase of 71.41 TP1T year-on-year.

Implementing enterprise intellectual property management standards is an important task of the State Intellectual Property Office's enterprise patent work in the past few years. "Since the enterprise crossed the standard, it has stepped into the ranks of the national intellectual property demonstration enterprises, and so far it has more than 100 invention patents." The person in charge of Intellectual Property Department of Shandong Luye Pharma Co., Ltd. is deeply impressed that the implementation of the standard has accelerated the pace of enterprise transformation and upgrading, making Luye Pharma take the lead in realizing the "going out" among domestic pharmaceutical enterprises.

Looking back on the past five years, the vigorous development of the patent business has allowed us to "go up to the ninth heaven to catch the moon, and down to the fifth ocean to catch the turtle." On the way to build a strong country in intellectual property, the State Intellectual Property Office will continue to promote the development of the patent industry and welcome the 19th CPC National Congress with outstanding achievements.

(Source: National Intellectual Property Office)