Innovation begins with client demand
The zhejiangzhou intellectual property protection centre implemented the services value-added reform
In this news report (rou faixian journalist cao jiegen), journalists have recently learned from the centre for the protection of intellectual property in hangzhou city, zhejiang province, that since this year, the centre has processed 4026 applications for patent applications for the early release of new products from new technologies in enabling enterprises。
In its three years of existence, the centre has a cumulative total of 3,741 registered innovation subjects in the high-end equipment manufacturing and digital economy industries and 10018 patent pre-trials, reducing the average licensing period for invention patents for the enterprises concerned to less than 80 days。
At the beginning of this year, in response to the need for patents for the “touching” payment system project, the hangzhou centre for intellectual property protection organized a specialized team to connect, from early commercial secrecy to rapid patenting authorization, to assist enterprises in the protection of all-process knowledge products and to support the allocation of more than 120 related patents prior to the release of all end-entity hardware, of which the most rapidly authorized invention patents took only 31 days. Patent protection strongly supports the full-scale marketing of the payment system. According to incomplete statistics, in just three months, the products covered more than 100 cities throughout the country, with access to more than 1,000 mega-mergers and over 1 million retail restaurants。
A cross-border electrician enterprise has repeatedly experienced intellectual property problems during its “off to sea” operations. The centre for the protection of intellectual property of hangzhou city conducts in-depth services based on the rapid pre-trial services of enterprises. The centre focuses on the domestic and foreign patent infringement actions of enterprises, compared to the risk patents of their main competitors, scientifically rational systems of early warning evaluation indicators, a comprehensive rating using the digital smart warning analysis module, production of enterprise patent data statistics and competition analysis reports, guidance to the company and insurance agencies in signing hangzhou's first tort liability insurance policy for its intellectual property rights abroad, and support to enterprises in further implementing “off-shore” risk management。
In interviews with journalists, the intellectual property rights practitioners of the firms interviewed praised the services of the hangzhou city intellectual property protection centre, which, in implementing the reform of the value-added of government services, insisted on using business needs as a guide for its work and on a shift from traditional “what, what” to “what, try to provide”。
In july this year, the centre's centre for the protection of intellectual property in the digital economy of hangzhou city, which was established through a national survey, officially opened the country's single national patent-prescription service for the digital economy and established the country's first national-level patent-service office for the digital economy, which approved 123 international patent classification numbers to cover all of hangzhou's leading industries in digital economy and high-end equipment manufacturing, with an 80 per cent increase in the licensing cycle。
At the same time, the hangzhou centre for the protection of intellectual property has focused on new business practices such as transborder electric operators, franchisings, business secrets, and a sound system for the settlement of disputes in new areas. Over the past three years, over 5,500 cases of assistance in intellectual property rights have been processed quickly, amounting to nearly 38 million yuan, and the average processing period for electrician cases has been reduced to 1. 48 days and the dispute resolution cycle has been reduced by more than 10 per cent。
Since the beginning of this year, the centre has established nine public service centres in major countries and regions, directing 31 cases of intellectual property disputes abroad, with a focus on foreign intellectual property cases with a 100 per cent rate of advocacy. The centre operates the overseas intellectual property disputes monitoring platform, with 45 expert lawyers and 5 service providers, and the overseas intellectual property rights control centre, which guides 95 business banks and publishes 81 overseas trademark monitoring reports。
To explore an integrated one-stop service for intellectual property, the hangzhou centre for intellectual property protection has innovatively launched the first industrial-type “six-one-stop” integrated service model for integrated patent, trademark, copyright and other business-related services in the country, amounting to 104 items, which are “one window, one window”. The innovation service was evaluated as the first national pilot best practice in the standardization of public services in intellectual property and was commended by the national intellectual property agency。
