Recently, the State Intellectual Property Office of China and the European Patent Office held a seminar in Lyon, France to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the official cooperative relationship between the two offices. More than 100 experts and business people in the field of patent and intellectual property from China and Europe attended the seminar. "China is the champion in the field of global innovation, and China has an important position in the field of patents that cannot be ignored." Jean-Paul Modi, chairman of the Lyon Chamber of Commerce and Industry in France, praised China at the beginning of the discussion. Then, when we discuss the patents between China and Europe Cooperation, what are we talking about?

"China is undergoing an important transition from the world's factory to the world's R&D center. China's R&D capabilities are getting stronger and stronger, and the patent system is developing more and more efficiently and modernly, which has a huge impact on China's economic transformation." European Patent Office Director Benoit Batistelli told this reporter. According to official statistics, in 2014, China received a total of 928,000 invention patent applications, a year-on-year increase of 12.5%, ranking first in the world for four consecutive years. "This number is also three times the number of patents accepted by the European Patent Office during the same period." Gao Lulin, vice chairman of the Internet Society of China and former director of the China Patent Office, told reporters.

The rapid growth in the number of patents reflects the continuous strengthening of China's innovation strength. At the same time, the pragmatic cooperation between the State Intellectual Property Office of China and the European Patent Office has risen from the technical level to the strategic level, and has achieved substantial results in various fields and levels such as personnel training, patent retrieval system construction, patent classification, and patent translation. results. The Chinese side has participated in the development of the European Patent Office patent search system "EPOQUE" for a long time, and has also joined the "Global Dossier" system development agreement. In 2012, the State Intellectual Property Office of China and the European Patent Office officially launched the cooperation of Chinese-English machine translation of patents in Brussels. Over the past three years, the translation machine has been very popular among scientific researchers, technicians, business people, etc., and only English is translated into Chinese every month. The usage is 17,000.

China's innovation power is increasingly serving the world through China-EU patent cooperation, and at the same time, it has driven the exchanges between China and Europe in the fields of business, economy, science and technology, justice, and culture. The number of Chinese companies applying for patents in Europe has risen sharply. "Three years ago, the number of Chinese patent applications in the European Patent Office was equal to that of France, and now it has exceeded France's 80%." Batistelli believes that China has established a modern, the efficient patent system is at the world's leading level, "This is also very important for Europe. The closer the China-EU patent system is, the more convenient the development of European innovative enterprises in China, which will promote China-EU economic and trade cooperation and increase the competitiveness of European enterprises. "