2021 IPR Protection Work Release 22,153 newly authorized patents in Yantai, a year-on-year increase of 43.3%
Jellyfish Network, April 26 (Correspondent Mo Yan)24On the occasion of the 22nd World Intellectual Property Day, Yantai City released the status of intellectual property protection in 2021. The reporter learned from the Yantai Municipal Market Supervision Bureau that in 2021, the city will have 22,153 new authorized patents, a year-on-year increase of 43.3%; the number of effective invention patents owned by 10,000 people is 14.91, an increase of 2.89 per 10,000 people over the end of the previous year, and the city’s valid registered trademarks 12.8 10,000 pieces, and the city has accumulated 41 valid geographical indication trademarks; 14 new companies using special geographical indication signs have been added, bringing the total number to 122, ranking first in the province. Since last year, Yantai City has intensified the punishment of intellectual property violations, raised the cost of violations, and strived to build a first-class intellectual property innovation and protection highland in China.
Cultivate 15 National Intellectual Property Demonstration Enterprises
“Since last year, Yantai City has always regarded intellectual property as an important support for promoting high-quality economic development, and intellectual property has made great progress.” Gao Dong, a third-level researcher at the Yantai Market Supervision Bureau, introduced. In 2021, the top-level design of intellectual property development will be comprehensively strengthened, the formation of a high-quality development pattern will be accelerated, the protection will be more powerful, the application efficiency will be significantly improved, the reform of “delegating power, regulating and serving” will be further promoted, and the business environment will be further optimized. In the comprehensive performance evaluation of high-quality development organized by Shandong Province, Yantai City ranked first in the two indicators of “Intellectual Property Protection Performance” and “High-value Patents for 10,000 People”. The Municipal Bureau of Market Supervision was awarded the title of “National Advanced Group of Intellectual Property System”, and the Third Civil Tribunal of Yantai Intermediate People’s Court was awarded the title of Advanced Group for Intellectual Property Trial Work in Shandong Province, achieving a good start to the “14th Five-Year Plan”.
Strengthen the top-level design and accurately plan the intellectual property protection mechanism. On January 1, 2021, the first local regulation on the protection of geographical indication products in the country, the Regulations on the Protection of Yantai Wine-producing Areas, was officially implemented. The Municipal Party Committee Office and the Government Office have successively issued a series of policy documents such as the “Implementation Plan on Strengthening Intellectual Property Rights Protection”, “Yantai City’s “14th Five-Year Plan” Intellectual Property Power City Strategy Outline”, and “Yantai City Intellectual Property Operation Service System Construction Implementation Plan”. It also took the lead in promulgating the “Yantai City Exhibition Intellectual Property Protection Measures” and “Yantai City’s Measures for the Management of Credit Grading and Classification in the Field of Intellectual Property Rights (Trial)”.
Empower high value creation and inspire intellectual property to create new heights. Continue to promote the cultivation project of intellectual property advantageous enterprises, and cultivate 15 national intellectual property demonstration enterprises and 63 advantageous enterprises, ranking the top three in the province. The Yantai City Patent Award was established, the core intellectual property project reserve library in the city’s key industrial fields and the patent implementation benefit project library with over one million items were established, with nearly 200 projects in the library. Two geographical indication products of “Yantai Apple” and “Longkou Fan” were selected as Haopin Shandong regional public brands. Thirty-five enterprises in Yantai were selected into the list of high-end brand cultivation enterprises in Shandong Province, and 20 enterprises were listed on the list of China’s brand value information release list, with a total brand value of 138.744 billion yuan.
Start the construction of intellectual property operation service system
Focusing on the promotion of high-quality use, the construction of a strong intellectual property city has achieved remarkable results. In 2021, the city will strive for a total of 14.52 million yuan of special funds for intellectual property rights from superiors, pay more than 98 million yuan in key projects of the intellectual property operation service system, and all projects for the construction of the intellectual property operation service system will be fully launched.
In 2021, 5 projects in Yantai won the 22nd China Patent Award, including 1 Silver Award and 4 Excellence Awards; 18 enterprises and universities including Dongfang Electronics, Yantai University, Luye Pharma, etc. won the “Provincial New and Old Kinetic Energy Conversion”. High-value patent cultivation competition”, “provincial high-value patent cultivation pilot unit”, “provincial patent transfer and transformation pilot” many honors and awards. Formulate the “Administrative Measures for Patent Navigation Work in Yantai City”, and organize the implementation of 20 municipal patent navigation projects. Throughout the year, 202 intellectual property pledge financings were carried out, a year-on-year increase of 169%; the pledge amount was 4.3 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 42%. It took the lead in launching two intellectual property securitization products in northern cities, and realized medium and long-term financing of 432 million yuan for 28 technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises. “Yantai Apple” was approved to build the first batch of national geographical indication protection product demonstration areas, and entered the first national geographical indication use promotion key contact guide list.
“Last year, Yantai City deepened the connection between executions and created a full chain of intellectual property protection from multiple perspectives.” Gao Dong said. In 2021, intellectual property, courts, public security, customs and other departments will focus on the key fields of food and medicine, focus on the important links of exhibitions and import and export, strengthen joint logistics linkage, improve information sharing, case consultation, joint law enforcement and other working mechanisms, and carry out the Winter Olympics in depth 12 special actions, including the special protection action of the meeting, the logo protection of the party’s 100th anniversary celebration, the special action of “Protecting Seedlings 2021”, and the special anti-counterfeiting action of agricultural materials, deepening the connection of executions, digging out the clues of the source of the case, and effectively gathering the joint force of joint construction and governance. . 527 intellectual property administrative cases of various types were handled, and “zero breakthrough” was achieved in cases of illegal new varieties of agricultural and forestry plants. Yantai Court formally accepted 1,518 civil cases of intellectual property rights and 30 criminal cases, a year-on-year increase of 56.99%. Among them, 46 cases of intellectual property disputes involving foreign countries, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan; 22 criminal cases of intellectual property infringement were detected, and criminal suspects were arrested. 177 people, with a total value of more than 100 million yuan; Yantai Customs launched a pilot program of the “Intellectual Property Pre-determination Rights” mechanism to assist enterprises in confirming the intellectual property rights status of exported goods in advance, speeding up customs clearance, and pre-determined 20 brands for related enterprises throughout the year , involving nearly 100,000 pieces of goods, a total of 308 batches of intellectual property protection measures were taken throughout the year, involving 12,000 pieces of goods; the Intellectual Property Protection Center handled 136 cases of intellectual property rights protection assistance throughout the year, with a closing rate of 100%; Undertook 220 people’s mediation cases, and the success rate of mediation cases was 54.1%. In December 2021, the country’s first prefecture-level trademark roving review court will be established in Yantai, providing convenient, fast, open and transparent roving review services for market players in the Jiaodong economic circle.
Established the first anti-counterfeiting alliance in the province
Multi-link coordination and cooperation to jointly build a new environment for the rule of law in intellectual property. In 2021, the Municipal Public Security Bureau, the Municipal People’s Procuratorate, and the Municipal Intermediate People’s Court jointly issued the “Cooperation Mechanism for Intellectual Property Criminal Cases”; the Municipal Market Supervision Bureau and Yantai Intermediate Court signed the “Framework Agreement on the Integrated Protection Mechanism of Intellectual Property Administration and Judiciary” ” Framework Agreement on Collaborative Protection of Intellectual Property Rights; jointly established the province’s first anti-counterfeiting alliance with the Municipal Public Security Bureau, and established a collaboration and linkage office and co-located; signed the Memorandum of Understanding on Party Building, Co-construction and Law Enforcement Cooperation with Yantai Customs, and jointly issued the “About “Notice on Strengthening the Protection of Geographical Indication Products” to further strengthen the protection of geographical indications at ports; jointly signed the “Jiaodong Economic Circle Intellectual Property Administrative Protection Integration Cooperation Agreement” with Qingdao, Weifang, Weihai, and Rizhao, focusing on cross-regional intellectual property protection, forming Jiaodong Regional intellectual property administrative protection “a game of chess”.
Last year, Yantai City took the lead in printing and distributing the “Yantai City’s Measures for the Classification and Supervision of Credit in the Field of Intellectual Property Rights” to accelerate the establishment of a differentiated intellectual property supervision model. Approved as a pilot city for the demonstration construction of administrative adjudication on patent infringement disputes in Shandong Province, and issued the “Specifications for Administrative Adjudication of Patent Infringement Disputes in Yantai City (Trial)”, which provides guidance and work regulations for handling patent administrative adjudication cases at the district and municipal level. The city will handle it in 2021. There were 22 administrative adjudication cases and 4 administrative mediation cases. Throughout the year, the company has been stationed at the exhibition site for inspection and enforcement 6 times, achieving the goal of “zero tolerance” for intellectual property protection at the exhibition. The intellectual property service system has been improved day by day, and the quality of innovation services has been improved. Last year, it organized 25 online public welfare lectures on “Yantai Intellectual Property Cloud Classroom”, and held 4 offline trainings including “Shandong Province 2021 International Independent Brand Cultivation Activity” Yantai field training; publicized and guided enterprises to implement “Enterprise Intellectual Property Management Standard”, more than 70 new standard implementation certification enterprises, and more than 130 enterprises have obtained the national standard implementation learning platform certificate; in July 2021, the province’s first intellectual property service industry association was approved, and nearly 300 intellectual property service institutions in the city , the pace of standardization, scale and branding of the intellectual property service industry has accelerated. Three abnormal patent application verification and rectification meetings were held throughout the year, and 4 service agencies were interviewed to supervise the comprehensive rectification, and severely cracked down on abnormal patent applications and malicious trademark registration.
In 2021, a total of 5,304 abnormal patent application clues will be withdrawn in the city, the withdrawal rate will reach 97.16%, and the withdrawal rate of malicious trademark registration applications will be 100%. The Intellectual Property Protection Center has successively set up patent pledge registration and business acceptance windows, opening up the “last mile” of intellectual property affairs services. This year is the first year of launching a new round of building a strong intellectual property country. Yantai City will actively serve and integrate into the new development pattern, anchor the “1+233” work system of the Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government, with the theme of promoting high-quality development, to implement The “14th Five-Year Plan” intellectual property outline and planning at all levels should be the starting point, and major events should be set up, and the model should be established. They should concentrate their energy and personnel, and insist on all work to move forward, so as to contribute intellectual property power to the city’s competition for advanced positions and high-quality development.