From November 14 to 15, the patent agent qualification examination in 2020 was held in 30 test sites in China at the same time. All epidemic prevention and control measures were put in place, and the implementation process of the examination was stable, safe and orderly.

According to statistics, in 2020, 45320 people in China have passed the examination and approval, increasing by 3.16% compared with 2019. The number of registered general departments is close to 12000, all of which have reached a record high. In 2020, Yinchuan test sites in Ningxia will be added, with 28 provinces and 30 test sites in China to undertake the examination, involving 70 test stations, 793 test sites and about 50609 test stations.

Under the background of the normalization of epidemic situation, the State Intellectual Property Office and the local intellectual property Bureau of the examination point unite to eliminate all difficulties. They have completed the tasks of online registration, data review, payment, implementation of examination station, examination site inspection, inspection organization, epidemic prevention safety and other tasks in a safe and orderly manner. In order to implement the dual political tasks of epidemic prevention and control and safety examination, the State Intellectual Property Office and the local intellectual property office of the examination site respectively set up the leading group for examination and the leading group for epidemic situation, confidentiality and emergency; in order to implement the principle of territorial ownership, the intellectual Property Office of each examination site established joint prevention and control mechanism with the relevant departments such as local education, epidemic prevention, public security and hospital, and provided with protection materials storage Prepare and strengthen emergency drill of emergency and make a safe examination network. In addition, the State Intellectual Property Office has constantly optimized and improved the examination organization mechanism, connected with the Ministry of education and the Ministry of public security, realized the interconnection of information data such as identity information and academic degree information of examinees, and reduced unnecessary certification matters in the links of examination registration and qualification examination; in the links of registration payment and application of qualification preferential policies, the whole process can be realized through the Internet Office, for examinees to provide more convenient and quick examination services, the quality and efficiency of the examination service has been constantly improved, and has been the local intellectual property office and the majority of candidates.

Since the establishment of patent agent qualification examination system in 1992, its influence has increased year by year. The relevant head of the State Intellectual Property Office introduces that, after 20 years of development and improvement, the patent agent qualification examination has become an important way to select and train intellectual property service talents, and has selected and reserved a large number of excellent intellectual property service talents for the state. By the end of October this year, 53009 people in China have obtained the qualification certificate of patent agent, including 22768 licensed patent agents, and 3156 patent agencies. (Mali)