On December 15, 2021, the 4th Member Congress and the 1st Council Meeting of the 4th Session of the Beijing Intellectual Property Protection Association were held in Beijing, and Liang Zhixiang, senior vice president and party secretary of Baidu Group, was elected as the fourth chairman. The "Artificial Intelligence Industry Intellectual Property Operation Center", which was prepared by baidu, the chairman unit, and recommended by the Beijing Municipal Intellectual Property Office and approved by the State Intellectual Property Office, was officially launched at this meeting.
Xu Wei, secretary of the Beijing Municipal Social Organization Management Center, and Zhou Liquan, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Intellectual Property Office, respectively recognized and congratulated the work of the association and put forward ardent expectations. The meeting deliberated and passed important documents such as the articles of association, elected the members of the new leading institutions such as the board of directors and the board of supervisors, and Liang Zhixiang, senior vice president and secretary of the party committee of Baidu Group, was elected as the fourth chairman.
Liang Zhixiang said in his speech that we are in the era of scientific and technological innovation, self-reliance and intellectual property protection, and the attention and support of the state and Beijing Municipality are the driving force and source of Beijing's scientific and technological innovation. Scientific and technological innovation is the cornerstone of the development of intellectual property rights, and the protection of intellectual property rights is the protection of innovation. As a science and technology enterprise in Beijing, we need to be grateful for the times, seize the opportunity, strengthen investment in research and development, accumulate independent intellectual property rights, and help science and technology to be self-reliant and self-reliant. As the new chairman unit, Baidu will improve its political awareness and awareness of the overall situation, closely integrate the association's intellectual property work with the party's line, principles and policies, and closely rely on the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government and the Beijing Municipal Intellectual Property Office to unite all member units, set up a stage, pool wisdom and efforts, and contribute to the construction of The District with the Best Intellectual Property Rights in Beijing.
It is understood that as the earliest investment, the strongest technology, the most complete layout of the artificial intelligence leading enterprises in China, Baidu relies on the full-stack, leading artificial intelligence technology capabilities, has created a series of independent and controllable new artificial intelligence technology infrastructure including Baidu brain, flying propeller, intelligent cloud, chip, data center and so on. Baidu's core R&D expenses accounted for 21.4% of revenue in 2020, and in the third quarter of 2021, Baidu's R&D expenses reached 6.2 billion yuan, an increase of 35% year-on-year, and the intensity of R&D investment continued to rank at the forefront of global large technology companies. High-intensity innovation investment enables Baidu to work basic research, basic technology and underlying innovation in key areas such as artificial intelligence.
According to the global deep learning patent panorama report "Deep Learning 2021 Patent Landscape" released by questel, a foreign professional organization, in September 2021, Baidu's deep learning patent application volume has leapt to the first place in the world, and it is active in the field of innovation in the field of artificial intelligence basic technology. According to the "Analysis Report on High-value Patents and Innovation Drivers of Chinese Intelligence" jointly released by the National Industrial Information Security Development Research Center and the Electronic Intellectual Property Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in October 2021, Baidu's artificial intelligence patent applications, authorizations and patent quality ranked first in China, of which the number of artificial intelligence patent applications exceeded 13,000. This year, Baidu's artificial intelligence interaction patent also won the China Patent Gold Award, becoming the enterprise with the most Chinese patent awards and the highest level in the field of artificial intelligence. These are the bases for Baidu to undertake the construction of the Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Intellectual Property Operation Center.
Under the witness of the participants and representatives, the national Beijing artificial intelligence industry intellectual property operation center built by Baidu was officially launched. It is reported that the center is the only artificial intelligence industry intellectual property operation center that has been approved by the State Intellectual Property Office and approved by the State Intellectual Property Office, which is independently built by the main body of artificial intelligence innovation, and will carry the mission of promoting the high-quality development of the artificial intelligence industry and actively build a good intellectual property innovation operation ecology of the artificial intelligence industry.
Cui Lingling, general manager of baidu group's patent affairs department and head of the Beijing artificial intelligence industry intellectual property operation center, introduced the background of the operation center and looked forward to the development vision of the operation center. Cui Lingling said that under the guidance of the State Intellectual Property Office and under the leadership of the Beijing Municipal Intellectual Property Office, the operation center will adhere to openness and cooperation, mutual benefit and win-win results, and work with industry partners to jointly build a vibrant intellectual property operation ecology of the artificial intelligence industry, promote high-quality industrial development, and help Beijing build a demonstration city of intellectual property power.
The scene of the launching ceremony (photo provided by the organizer)
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