"How to quickly pre-examine patents, how to protect patent rights, how to apply for patent awards, and what kind of funding can be obtained for intellectual property rights?" In China Railway Fifth Bureau Group Co., Ltd., Guiyang Intellectual Property Protection Center is carrying out intellectual property public service lectures for China Railway Fifth Bureau Group Co., Ltd. and its four subsidiaries in Guizhou.
Guizhou Provincial Intellectual Property Service Miles Travel China Railway Fifth Bureau Special Event
In Xiuwen County, a special event on the building of geographical indication branding, focusing on the basic knowledge and concept of geographical indications, the protection of geographical indications and special signs, etc., was also carried out as scheduled.
Intellectual property is an important strategic resource for enterprise development, and it is also a key element to enhance the core competitiveness of enterprises. Since 2023, with the theme of "Intellectual Property Services at the Grassroots Level and Helping to Build a Strong Intellectual Property Country", our province has continued to promote the "Ten Thousand Miles of Intellectual Property Services" and continuously strengthened the supply of intellectual property services for the high-quality economic development of our province.
Delivery service, innovation achievements further enhanced
In June 2023, in response to the personalized needs of Guizhou Water Conservancy and Hydropower Survey, Design and Research Institute Co., Ltd., a "lecturer group" composed of Guiyang Intellectual Property Protection Center, Bank of China, China Construction Bank, Huachuang Zhidao, Beijing Zhongjinhao, etc., provided the company with a customized special service of "Intellectual Property Rights into the Water Conservancy and Hydropower Institute", effectively answering the questions of how the company can build a trademark strategic brand and how to clarify the direction of high-value patent layout.
"Organizing experts from various fields to enter enterprises and parks to carry out face-to-face services for intellectual property rights not only meets the universal needs of most enterprises, but also solves the individual needs of key enterprises. The relevant responsible comrade of the Nanming District Market Supervision and Administration Bureau said.
Guangzhou intellectual property experts provide on-the-spot guidance on the use of trademarks by enterprises in Bijie City
In February 2023, since the launch of Guizhou's "Intellectual Property Service Journey" activity, focusing on key industries and innovative enterprises such as new energy batteries and materials, big data, and sauce-flavored liquor, our province has continuously strengthened the publicity and promotion of the "Patent Navigation Guide" series of national standards, continuously improved the docking mechanism of patent navigation service innovation subjects, and organized and implemented 10 patent navigation projects around key core technologies to help solve the "stuck neck" problem.
In addition, the Intellectual Property Office of our province organized the intellectual property departments of cities (prefectures) and counties (cities and districts) to innovate and hold more than 80 special trainings on high-value patent cultivation, rapid pre-examination, pledge financing, trademark brand cultivation, geographical indication construction, rights protection assistance, patent navigation, transfer and transformation, etc., with a total of more than 1,000 service enterprises, 60 government agencies, 20 parks, 18 scientific research institutes, and 20 schools, covering 2,000 people.
Through policy interpretation, publicity, roadshows, expert evaluation, achievement display and other modes, the intellectual property system of our province has solved more than 160 problems for enterprises and institutions, and the awareness of intellectual property protection in various industries has been further improved. At the same time, it also recommended and submitted 4 excellent cases of "Intellectual Property Service Journey" to the State Intellectual Property Office.
Strong traction, financing costs are further reduced
Exceeded 100 million yuan, which is the amount of intellectual property pledge financing in Bijie City in 2023! This is thanks to the door-to-door service provided by the Bijie Intellectual Property Office to enterprises. In September 2023, the Bijie Intellectual Property Office learned that more than 20 enterprises had intellectual property pledge financing needs, and immediately organized enterprise representatives and banks, guarantee companies and other financial institutions to carry out bank-enterprise matchmaking meetings for intellectual property pledge financing, effectively building a good communication platform between banks and enterprises.
Our province has carried out in-depth activities of "benefiting enterprises in the park" of intellectual property pledge financing, continuously strengthened the publicity and promotion of pledge financing subsidy policies, continuously deepened government-bank cooperation and bank-enterprise docking, and further promoted the work of intellectual property pledge financing to go deep into parks, enterprises and financial institutions.
According to the data, as of November 2023, Guiyang City's intellectual property pledge financing amount in CCB Guizhou Branch has completed a total of 510 million yuan, an increase of 350 million yuan compared with 2022. In the next step, we will attach great importance to the implementation of relevant intellectual property finance policies to better meet the financing needs of small, medium and micro enterprises. Lin Qiang, a member of the Party Committee of the Guizhou Branch of the Construction Bank, said.
Wudang District Intellectual Property Pledge Financing Bank-Enterprise Matchmaking Meeting
At the same time, our province vigorously supports enterprises to implement the national standard of "Enterprise Intellectual Property Management Standards", and issued 3.27 million yuan of subsidy funds to 109 enterprises that implemented the standard for the first time. Focusing on the core technologies and key links of the six major industrial bases, our province selected and supported 6 high-value core patents in Guizhou Province and allocated 1.2 million yuan in funding funds. Focusing on the top ten industrial industries, 24 enterprises with intellectual property advantages in Guizhou Province were selected and supported, and 4.8 million yuan of funding was allocated. In addition, it actively carried out intellectual property pledge loan funding, and allocated more than 170 yuan of intellectual property pledge loan subsidy to 40 eligible enterprises and banks, effectively reducing the financing cost of enterprises.
Emphasis on protection, the transformation of "intellectual property" has been further improved
The protection of intellectual property rights plays a key role in stimulating innovation.
Since the launch of the Intellectual Property Journey, our province has continuously built a policy orientation and a large-scale protection pattern of strict protection of intellectual property rights through the issuance of the "Implementation Plan for the Administrative Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in Guizhou Province in 2023" and the "Provisions on the Participation of Technical Investigators in Judicial and Administrative Cases of Patent Infringement Disputes in Guizhou Province".
In 2023, our province organized and carried out various special actions such as the special action on intellectual property protection for the Hangzhou Asian Games and the Asian Paralympic Games, the "Iron Fist" action for the investigation and handling of cases in the field of people's livelihood in 2023, the "blue sky" special rectification action for the intellectual property agency industry, and the special rectification action for geographical indications, etc., to continue to strengthen the crackdown on and governance of intellectual property infringement in key areas and key links, and continuously improve the level of protection of intellectual property rights throughout the chain. According to statistics, from January to October 2023, the provincial market supervision department investigated and handled a total of 947 intellectual property cases, a year-on-year increase of 16.2% over 2022, with a case value of 9.9868 million yuan and a fine of 6.5164 million yuan. The province handled 328 cases of intellectual property disputes, and 322 cases were closed.
On the basis of purifying the environment for intellectual property protection, combined with the actual situation of "Village BA" and "Village Super", our province has issued the "Village BA" and "Village Super" Brand Cultivation and Intellectual Property Protection Work Plan", which continuously escorts the "Village BA" and "Village Super" brand cultivation and intellectual property protection from the aspects of "Village BA + Industry" and "Village Super + Industry" series of trademark cultivation, brand creation, and intellectual property protection.
"The intellectual property journey is a fast channel to improve intellectual property services, and it is also the most direct way to understand the needs of intellectual property at the grassroots level. Through face-to-face communication and one-to-one communication, we can better promote the high-quality creation and efficient use of intellectual property rights of enterprises, help enterprises solve development problems, stimulate the vitality of enterprise innovation, and help enterprises improve quality and efficiency, so as to inject strength into the province of intellectual property rights. The relevant person in charge of the Provincial Intellectual Property Office said.
Guizhou Daily Tianyan News reporter Bao Beibei
Edited by Zhu Dengfang
Second instance Zhang Hengxin
Third trial Sun Xiaorong