In order to thoroughly implement the decision and deployment of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on strengthening intellectual property protection, strengthen the guidance of patent and trademark law enforcement, standardize patent and trademark law enforcement, and improve the quality and business level of patent and trademark administrative protection, the State Intellectual Property Office recently revised and issued the measures for the evaluation of patent and trademark administrative protection files (hereinafter referred to as the measures).

In recent years, the State Intellectual Property Office has vigorously promoted the standardization of patent administrative protection. In 2016, it issued the measures for the evaluation of patent administrative protection files, and recorded the evaluation results of patent files into the local annual performance appraisal results of law enforcement, which effectively standardized the patent administrative protection work and improved the quality and level of handling cases.

In 2018, the central government made it clear that the State Intellectual Property Office is responsible for the business guidance of trademark patent law enforcement. This revision is not only to implement the requirements of institutional reform, but also to implement the specific measures of "opinions on strengthening the protection of intellectual property rights". The measures effectively integrate the evaluation of patent and trademark files, and systematically adjust the content of file evaluation, which is divided into three types of cases: administrative adjudication, administrative punishment and administrative mediation, respectively corresponding to patent infringement dispute cases, counterfeit patents, trademark infringement and trademark general violation cases and other patent dispute mediation cases, so as to further adjust and improve the specific scoring standards And the standard of filing cases is added. In the process of revising the measures, the State Intellectual Property Office extensively solicited local opinions and suggestions, and held several forums attended by representatives from the front line of law enforcement at the grass-roots level. According to the feedback opinions and suggestions from provinces and symposiums, we will study and demonstrate them one by one, and further revise and improve them.

In the next step, the State Intellectual Property Office will, in accordance with the provisions of the measures, further promote the evaluation of patent and trademark administrative protection files, unify and standardize the evaluation standards of case quality and filing standards of documents and materials, and improve the level of patent and trademark administrative protection. (Fu Zhu)