General secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that the protection of intellectual property rights is related to the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, the development of high quality, the happiness of people's lives, the overall situation of opening up to the outside world and the national security.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the work of intellectual property protection in China has made historic achievements. In the future, how to further build a large protection pattern and comprehensively strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights? How to effectively promote the transformation of intellectual property work in China from pursuing quantity to improving quality? Xinhua News Agency reporter interviewed shenchangyu, director of the State Intellectual Property Office.
Reporter: what are the main aspects of the historical achievements of intellectual property protection in China?
Shenchangyu: looking back on the development of intellectual property in China, we have spent decades and gone through the development path of developed countries for hundreds of years, and realized a historic leap from scratch to existence and from small to large, and become a real intellectual property power.
By the end of 2020, the number of invention patents per 10000 people in China (excluding Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) has reached 15.8, and the registered number of effective trademarks has reached 30173000, all of which are more than 4 times that of 2012. The number of core patents, well-known trademarks, high-quality copyrights and high-quality geographical indication products continued to increase.
The rapid leap in the comprehensive strength of intellectual property benefits from the continuous strengthening of intellectual property protection in China, especially since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
The newly formulated civil code establishes the important legal principles of intellectual property protection, the revision of patent law, trademark law and copyright law, and the establishment of a high standard system of punitive damages for infringement in the world, which provides a strong legal guarantee for strict intellectual property protection.
By establishing the State Administration of market supervision and re establishing the State Intellectual Property Office, China has realized the centralized and unified management of patents, trademarks, geographical indications of origin, integrated circuit layout design and comprehensive enforcement of patents and trademarks, and the administrative management efficiency has been greatly improved. Through the establishment of several intellectual property courts and the establishment of the intellectual property court by the Supreme People's court, the judicial protection of intellectual property has been significantly strengthened.
At the same time, China continues to promote the quality and efficiency of intellectual property review and effectively strengthen the source protection. By the end of 2020, the patent review cycle of invention has been compressed to 20 months as a whole, and the high value patent review cycle is reduced to 14 months. The average review period of trademark registration application has been shortened to 4 months.
The results show that the construction of the pattern of great protection in China has achieved remarkable results, and the social satisfaction of intellectual property protection has been increased from 63.69 in 2012 to 80.05 in 2020.
Reporter: in the new development stage, how can we further build a large protection pattern and comprehensively strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights?
Shen Changyu: General Secretary Xi Jinping's important discourse has raised the intellectual property protection work to hitherto unknown heights. Standing at the new historical starting point, we should grasp the new development stage accurately, carry out the new development concept, promote the construction of new development pattern, consciously integrate the protection of intellectual property into the overall situation of national economic and social development, and provide strong support in all aspects.
The intellectual property system will comprehensively use various means such as law, administration, economy, technology and social governance to improve the protection system from the aspects of examination authorization, administrative law enforcement, judicial protection, arbitration mediation, industry self-discipline and citizen integrity, and strengthen coordination and build a large protection work pattern.
We will establish the working mechanism of the State Intellectual Property Office to deal with patent infringement disputes with great influence in the whole country; continue to strengthen cooperation with public security and customs departments to form a joint protection force; and cooperate with the Supreme People's court to promote online litigation and mediation, and give full play to the important role of mediation in resolving intellectual property disputes.
In order to make the protection of intellectual property more efficient and fast, the State Intellectual Property Office has continuously strengthened the construction of rapid and cooperative protection mechanism of intellectual property in recent years. At present, it has distributed over 60 intellectual property protection centers and rapid rights protection centers nationwide, providing convenient, efficient and low-cost channels for market entities. In the future, the construction and layout of intellectual property protection center and rapid rights protection center will be optimized, and about 20 more intellectual property protection centers and quick rights protection centers will be built within the year.
At the same time, the construction of the guidance system for overseas intellectual property disputes will be promoted. This year, another 10 local sub centers of overseas intellectual property dispute response guidance centers will be constructed, and the overseas intellectual property information service platform construction will be continuously strengthened, so as to provide high-level guidance and services for the "going global" enterprises to effectively deal with overseas intellectual property disputes.
Reporter: what measures will be taken to effectively promote the transformation of intellectual property from pursuing quantity to improving quality?
Shenchangyu: it is necessary to enter the new development stage, effectively promote the transformation from the big country of intellectual property introduction to the great power of creation, and from the pursuit of quantity to the improvement of quality.
In recent years, the achievements of intellectual property rights in China to promote high-quality development have been shown. According to the report issued by the world intellectual property organization, China's PCT international patent applications ranked the first in the world in 2019; of the world's leading 5000 brands, China accounted for 408, with a total value of $1.6 trillion. According to statistics, the added value of patent intensive industries accounted for 11.6% of GDP in 2019.
In the future, the work of intellectual property should highlight the theme of high-quality development, comprehensively strengthen the creation, protection, application, management and service of intellectual property with higher standards, and promote the steady and high-quality development of the cause of intellectual property rights from a higher starting point.
In recent years, the State Intellectual Property Office has promoted the work of patent quality improvement, highlighted the quality orientation, improved the quality of patent application, and strictly controlled the authorization. We will comprehensively promote the improvement of patent quality in key areas of key industries, carry out patent navigation work, and vigorously promote the implementation of standards by enterprises, institutions of higher learning and scientific research institutions. In the future, we will continue to vigorously implement the patent quality improvement project, help solve the problem of "neck card", cooperate with the implementation of industrial infrastructure reconstruction project, and promote the creation and reserve of relevant intellectual property rights. At the same time, the brand strategy will continue to be implemented, and the implementation of geographical indications will be launched to help rural revitalization and support high-quality economic development. (reporter Zhang Quan)