Better system sees invention patents rise
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CHINA is moving to improve the quality and structure of its patents amid a drive to foster innovation-driven development, a senior intellectual property (IP) official said yesterday.
“Though China is a big patent country, it is not a strong one,” said Shen Changyu, director of the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO).
Compared with developed countries, China has fewer patents featuring originality and high or core value, Shen said.
China has witnessed an increase in the number of patent applications in recent years.
The government accepted nearly 2.38 million patent applications and authorized more than 1.31 million in 2013. The number of invention patent applications was 825,000 — up 26.3 percent year on year.
It is the first time in five years invention patent applications took up more than one third of the three types of applications, said Shen. The other two types are utility model and design.
“The application structure was further improved in the first quarter of 2014, as nearly 40 percent of applications were invention patents,” said Shen.
To improve the quality of patents, the SIPO is taking measures to tighten the authorization of low quality patents, increase the proportion of invention patents, and favor patents of high technical value and with more promising market prospects, said Shen.
China has also strengthened legal protection of IP rights. Some 53,000 people suspected of IP rights infringement and involvement in fake goods were held by police in 2013.
They were involved in about 59,000 cases with an estimated value of 40.6 billion yuan (US$6.51 billion), figures released by the SIPO showed.
Courts accepted 88,583 civil cases and 2,886 administrative cases of IP rights infringement last year and closed 10,000 cases, according to SIPO figures.
In light of increasing IP disputes between China and the United States, Shen advised companies to file patent applications overseas ahead of entering the international market.
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