Sino-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City comprehensive reform work meeting held

On February 9, the Sino-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City comprehensive reform work meeting was held, and the comprehensive reform test situation of intellectual property utilization and protection was introduced at the meeting. Over the past six years, Sino-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City has achieved remarkable results in the first round of comprehensive reform experiments, and launched 20 pioneering reform measures, including the country's first pure patent securitization product and the country's first overseas intellectual property infringement liability insurance.

Intellectual property rights are the source of innovation and development, and an important indicator to measure a country or region's scientific and technological innovation capabilities and economic competitiveness. Guangdong's intellectual property regional development index, effective number of invention patents, and PCT international patent applications rank first in the country for many years in a row. In the next step, Guangdong will focus on high-quality development, give full play to the leading role of intellectual property demonstration, continue to promote the pilot demonstration of building a strong intellectual property country, and implement the construction project of "ten strong cities and one hundred strong counties" in intellectual property rights.

Introduced 20 first reform measures in the whole province

In January of this year, the 5th Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Intellectual Property Trade Expo and International Geographical Indication Products Trade Expo announced that the Zhitong Fair and Land Expo will permanently settle in the country’s only experimental field approved by the State Council to carry out comprehensive reforms in the use and protection of national intellectual property rights— —Sino-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City.

Behind the permanent settlement of the China-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge Fair and the Land Expo, the effectiveness of Sino-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City in the comprehensive reform of intellectual property utilization and protection is highlighted. In 2016, Sino-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City was approved by the State Council to carry out comprehensive reform experiments on the use and protection of intellectual property rights. According to the news from the conference, over the past six years, Sino-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City has deepened reforms in terms of systems and mechanisms, collaborative protection, financial innovation, industry leadership, and international cooperation. path.

Over the past 6 years, Huangpu District and Guangzhou Development Zone have accumulatively been approved to build 9 national-level reform platforms such as demonstration parks for the construction of an intellectual property power, commercial secret protection innovation pilots, etc., and launched pure patent intellectual property securitization, overseas infringement liability insurance, etc. There were 20 pioneering reform measures.

Intellectual property services play an important supporting role in improving the level of intellectual property creation and enhancing the core competitiveness of the real economy. In order to further stimulate the intellectual property rights of technology companies to create new kinetic energy and lead the high-quality development of the industry, Guangzhou Development District has made every effort to create a new highland for intellectual property services. The high-standard planning and construction of Sino-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City has a total investment of over 9 billion yuan and covers an area of 420 mu. Intellectual Property Service Park.

As the ecological environment of intellectual property services is becoming more and more perfect, the agglomeration effect of intellectual property services in Guangzhou Development District has become more prominent. At present, the district has attracted more than 300 intellectual property service institutions. Over the past six years, the Guangdong Center of the Patent Examination Association has approved a total of 1.13 million patent applications, and the Guangzhou Intellectual Property Court has accepted nearly 80,000 cases.

In April 2022, the province's only international intellectual property service hall was unveiled in Sino-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City, including French Novartis Technology Co., Ltd., Singapore Shengkai Intellectual Property Company, and Malaysia Lianwei Bindas Patent Office. International intellectual property service agencies have settled in.

Continue to promote the pilot demonstration of building a powerful intellectual property country

The experimental work of comprehensive reform of the use and protection of intellectual property rights is an "important experimental field" for Guangdong to shape new growth drivers and advantages and achieve high-quality development. The meeting proposed that the Sino-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City should focus on the strategic goal of building a "national knowledge center with global influence", promote a new round of comprehensive reform experiments on the use and protection of intellectual property rights in the Knowledge City with a higher position and stronger efforts, and guide more Multi-innovation resources and policy support are tilted towards major reform measures and key construction projects, and strive to create a new highland for knowledge creation, a free port for international talents, a source of innovation in the Bay Area, and a demonstration zone for open cooperation.

At present, focusing on major strategies such as serving the "dual districts" and the construction of the three major platforms of Hengqin, Qianhai, and Nansha, Guangdong is solidly promoting the high-quality creation, application and high-standard protection of intellectual property rights, and actively promoting a new round of joint construction of intellectual property rights between the ministries and provinces. Issued and implemented the "14th Five-Year Plan" for the protection and utilization of intellectual property rights, promulgated and implemented local regulations such as the "Guangdong Provincial Intellectual Property Protection Regulations", "Guangdong Provincial Copyright Regulations", "Guangdong Provincial Geographical Indication Regulations" and other local regulations, and was approved to build a national intellectual property power. There are 8 pilot demonstration cities, 13 pilot demonstration counties for the construction of strong counties, and 8 pilot demonstration parks for the construction of a strong country.

On the first working day of the Chinese New Year in the Year of the Rabbit, the province's high-quality development conference was held, sending a clear signal to the whole society to speed up high-quality development. Intellectual property protection work is related to high-quality development. Only by strictly protecting intellectual property rights and cracking down on market players and criminals who infringe and counterfeit in accordance with the law can the quality of the supply system be improved and high-quality development effectively promoted.

In the next step, Guangdong will focus on high-quality development and fully implement the national strategic deployment. Coordinate and promote the implementation of the Outline for Building a Strong Intellectual Property Country, the Outline for Building a Strong Province, and the "14th Five-Year Plan", accelerate the implementation of various key reforms and key projects jointly built by the State Intellectual Property Office and our province, and strengthen the integration of intellectual property policies and elements , Continuously improve the quality of intellectual property creation, protection effect, application efficiency and service level.

Guangdong also proposes to make full use of the whole chain to fully play the role of intellectual property demonstration and leading. Strengthen the construction of the intellectual property protection work system, implement the special policy of intellectual property rights to help the development of "specialized, special and new" small and medium-sized enterprises, further promote the cultivation of demonstration enterprises with intellectual property advantages, and promote the full implementation of the patent open licensing system. Continue to promote the pilot demonstration of building a strong intellectual property country, and implement the construction project of "ten strong cities and one hundred strong counties" in intellectual property rights.

In terms of international cooperation and competition, the meeting proposed that Guangdong will focus on key areas such as key common technologies and cutting-edge leading technologies, cultivate a batch of original and basic high-value intellectual property rights, and make every effort to solve the "stuck neck" problem. Strengthen exchanges and cooperation with the World Intellectual Property Organization, improve the overseas dispute response guidance system, and continuously improve the ability of enterprises to respond to overseas disputes.