Shen Changyu, Director of the State
Intellectual Property Office, recently said at the National Conference of
Directors of Intellectual Property Offices that, Chinese patent volume
"rebounded" in 2014. Overall, there is an increase on the amount and
improvement in terms of quality, and the Intellectual Property advanced to a
new level.
Shen Changyu reviewed that in the first
half of 2014, due to the economic downward pressure and policy changes in
patent application subsidy, there are new changes in the growth of Chinese
patent volume, the invention patent changed to moderate-speed growth from
high-speed growth, while the design and utility model patent application once
saw serious decline. But this is precisely the result that China Intellectual
Property has implemented measures of "layout by quantity and win by
quality".
But the ultimate fact shows that the
related adjustment does not hinder the rebounding of patent volume. Data show
that in 2014, the accepted volume of PCT international patent application grew
by 14.2%, as for Chinese patent application, invention patent application grew
by 12.5%, ranking first in the world.
Shen Changyu said
that, in 2015 we will continue to focus on the principle of "moving
forward with better quantity and quality”, to promote the development of
intellectual property, support companies in effective layout of intellectual
property, explore the establishment of management system for application
quality, promote the creation of high value patents with rich scientific
content and good market efficiency, broaden channels for capitalization and
industrialization of intellectual property, and promote social capital to
establish funds for patent operation; at the same time, we will try to include
intellectual property into the newly revised national economic accounting
system, reform the examination systems and methods for patent agent
qualification, actively promote the early introduction of Service
invention ordinance, speed up the revision of Regulations on Patent
Commissioning, and make efforts to resolve the outstanding issues of
"difficult evidence collection, long period, high cost, low compensation
and inefficiency" for patent protection. |
