In China, intellectual property rights are progressively being protected and enforced through innovation and digitalisation. The country’s rapid technical and economic expansion has resulted in an increase in intellectual property-related challenges such as infringement and counterfeiting.
As a result, China has taken several steps to improve its IP system and stimulate innovation, including strengthening IP laws, establishing specialised IP courts, and investing in research and development (R&D).
Digitalisation has also played an important role in expediting IP operations, facilitating online filing, and making patent and trademark databases more accessible. These measures have not only aided in the protection of intellectual property rights but have also spurred innovation and economic growth in China.
With this, the Beijing Economic Development Zone recently served as the major location for the “4.26” Intellectual Property Day events with the theme “Strengthening intellectual property rights protection and application and opening a new chapter in the construction of a demonstration park for building an intellectual property power.”
The primary initiatives of the Beijing Patent Open Licencing Pilot were unveiled by Qin Yuanming, Deputy Director of the Beijing Intellectual Property Office. He stated that the next step will be for the Beijing Municipal Intellectual Property Office to further promote patent open licencing pilot work, promote the docking of patent open licencing projects with innovative enterprises, carry out patent transformation and application in the city, and contribute new strengths to the construction of Beijing as a model city of intellectual property power.
The Jingkai District Judge Workstation of the Beijing Intellectual Property Court will serve the intellectual property rights protection needs of creators in the Jingkai District. Through legal publicity, circuit trials, investigation and research, training, and teaching, it aims to combine judicial protection of intellectual property rights with technological innovation practices of park enterprises to ensure high-quality economic development in the area.
Through the continuous improvement of intellectual property systems and mechanisms that encourage and protect innovation, the Economic and Technological Development Zone has created a world-class intellectual property business environment.
In addition, the Beijing Intellectual Property Court’s Economic Development Zone Judge Workstation will serve as an anchor to ensure the precision of intellectual property judicial work and the needs of the construction of the “Three Cities and One District” in the Economic Development Zone.
The goal is to provide convenient protection of intellectual property rights and to continuously enhance the intellectual property protection system by integrating administration, justice, arbitration, and mediation, among others.
On the other hand, the Economic and Technological Development Zone will strengthen its partnership with the Beijing Municipal Intellectual Property Office, advance the thorough development of the “one network” model of intellectual property innovation services, offer robust intellectual property protection, and support the development and establishment of an international science and technology innovation hub’s leading position.
In recent years, batches of high-value patents have continued to emerge, and high-quality companies have grown, relying on the Economic and Technological Development Zone’s full-chain service model of intellectual property creation, utilisation, protection, management, and service.
The Science and Technology Innovation Bureau will use the judge workstation of the Beijing Intellectual Property Court as a starting point to promote intellectual property innovation services and transform it into a source of vitality for innovation subjects, to advance industrial development and build the main platform of the “Three Cities and One District” of the Beijing International Science and Technology Innovation Centre.
