Located at the confluence of rivers and seas, the Yangtze River Delta region is one of the regions with the most active economic development, the highest degree of openness and the strongest innovation capacity in China. Focusing on the two key words of "integration" and "high quality", in recent years, the three provinces and one city in the Yangtze River Delta have made concerted efforts in the field of intellectual property, forming an integrated regional intellectual property "ecosystem". In recent years, the three provinces and one city of Yangtze River Delta have made concerted efforts in the field of intellectual property and formed a regional integrated intellectual property "ecosystem".
The press conference on intellectual property rights in the Yangtze River Delta held recently presented the effectiveness of intellectual property rights work and the latest cooperation progress of the three provinces and one city from many angles, reflecting the strong momentum of intellectual property rights in supporting the high-quality development of the regional economy.
Igniting a "New Spark" of Collaborative Development
At present, the three provinces and one city in the Yangtze River Delta combine the characteristics of regional development and carry out a number of intellectual property innovation practices to form innovative competitiveness.
How to make it easier for business entities to obtain intellectual property services? Wei Lan, Deputy Director of Shanghai Intellectual Property Office, introduced at the meeting the latest progress of local promotion of public services of intellectual property rights into the administrative service center of each district. "Since this year, the comprehensive IP service windows of 16 districts in Shanghai have been fully stationed in the district administrative service centers, initially forming a new model of IP government services characterized by flat management and digital empowerment. At present, the former municipal service matters such as patent implementation license contract filing, key trademark protection, IPR complaint and consultation, and IPR 'can't get things done' reflection have been sunk to the district windows. In line with the concept of 'let the masses run less, let the data run more', the development and construction of the relevant information system module of the service window is also being accelerated, and the relevant matters for processing have been incorporated into the city's 'one network to do' office library."
In 2022, Jiangsu scored first in the country in terms of social satisfaction with intellectual property protection. Intellectual property protection is the distinctive undertones of Jiangsu in the process of enhancing its own economic competitiveness. When answering questions from reporters, Zhi Suping, director of Jiangsu Intellectual Property Office, introduced that Jiangsu focuses on rapid and coordinated protection and efficient protection of intellectual property rights, and takes the lead in building a "1+13+N" rapid and coordinated protection service system for intellectual property rights, with the Intellectual Property Protection Center and the Rapid Rights Protection Center providing a "One-stop" IPR protection services for business and innovation subjects. In terms of efficient protection, Jiangsu took the lead in the country in 2021 and created provincial-level IPR protection demonstration zones as a grip to open up the "whole chain" of IPR protection.
Zhejiang Province has made a breakthrough in the use of intellectual property rights. At present, Zhejiang Province has pushed information to 24,000 small and medium-sized enterprises in the province, resulting in the licensing of 1,252 patents with a licensing amount of 3.75 million yuan. Gu Wenhai, deputy director of the Zhejiang Provincial Intellectual Property Office, said that Zhejiang has promoted this pilot project by clarifying the licensing information release mechanism, establishing a multi-party supply and demand docking mechanism, introducing supporting incentive policies, and strengthening supporting transaction guarantees. For example, it supports market-oriented service institutions to carry out in-depth processing of patent open licensing statement information from inside and outside the province, combine with patent navigation, patent value assessment and other services, and form personalized patent matching lists for enterprises in relevant fields.
In 2022, the total number of geographical indication products in Anhui Province will reach 85, and those involving rural revitalization projects will reach 54, helping 525,000 people out of poverty to increase their annual per capita income by more than 4,000 yuan. Geographical indications play an important role in the revitalization of Anhui's countryside. Cheng Yin, director of Anhui Provincial Intellectual Property Office, introduced that Anhui actively promote the use of geographical indications special mark approved reform pilot, approved 340 enterprises with mark; focus on building geographical indications brand; solidly carry out spring tea, autumn and well-known geographical indication products protection special action, the implementation of traceability management system on 11 geographical indication products. In recent years, the province's special action to investigate and deal with a total of 46 related cases, the amount of confiscation of 486,000 yuan. In the next step, Anhui Province will focus on improving the characteristic quality assurance system and other aspects of geographical indications, and make new contributions to geographical indications to help rural revitalization.
Looking for the "optimal solution" for economic leap
Under the accelerated integration process, the Yangtze River Delta has been cooperating in the field of IPR for many years, and the advantages of IPR have been forming economic support force in the cooperation.
Focusing on cross-regional protection of intellectual property rights, in 2019, three provinces and one city in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and Anhui signed the Letter of Intent on Cooperation in Optimizing the Business Environment for Intellectual Property Rights in the Yangtze River Delta Region; formed cross-regional credit information sharing on intellectual property rights, eliminated "information silos", cooperated in handling counterfeit infringement of intellectual property rights on e-commerce platforms, and strengthened source In 2021, the "Several Initiatives on Strengthening IPR Protection in the Yangtze River Delta Ecological Green Integrated Development Demonstration Zone and Promoting Early and Pilot Measures" will be implemented, specifying 16 work tasks in four areas, including joint protection of IPR, strengthening the sharing and flow of IPR service resources, promoting the integration of IPR management services, and strengthening the institutional guarantee of IPR integration. 16 work tasks in four aspects.
In terms of promoting high-quality development, the four regions jointly signed the Framework Agreement on Higher Quality Integrated Development of Intellectual Property in the Yangtze River Delta Region 2.0 and the Agreement on Cooperation in Data Intellectual Property Protection in the Yangtze River Delta Region. The intellectual property departments of the three provinces and one city in the Yangtze River Delta region further built a normalized mechanism of common consultation to strengthen the organization and implementation of the outline and planning of intellectual property construction in the Yangtze River Delta region and promote it in a coordinated manner. At the same time, the intellectual property departments of the three provinces and one city also carry out many explorations in data intellectual property protection pilot, geographical indications protection and application, etc.
At this conference, the IPR bureaus of the three provinces and one city jointly signed the Memorandum of Cooperation on the Integrated Development of High-Quality Patent Agency Industry in the Yangtze River Delta Region and the Agreement on the Promotion of the IPR Series for College Students in the Yangtze River Delta Region. The former will coordinate and promote the formation of a pattern of information interchange, mutual appreciation of development experience, synergistic interaction of supervision and mutual recognition of industry evaluation in the region, promote the circulation and integrated development of patent agency resources, and significantly improve the development level of patent agency industry in the three provinces and one city. The latter will attract more young people to pay attention to and understand intellectual property rights, and create a good environment to encourage innovation and protect intellectual property rights by popularizing intellectual property knowledge and promoting intellectual property policies.
The integrated intellectual property "ecosystem" in the Yangtze River Delta region is both planned for the long term and implemented in the present. Under the continuous promotion, it is worth looking forward to the stronger IPR cooperation in the Yangtze River Delta region.