China News Service, May 8th. Lei Xiaoyun, Director of the Utilization Promotion Department of the State Intellectual Property Office, said on the 8th that some platform merchants illegally released patent agency business information and were suspected of unqualified patent agency behavior. The State Intellectual Property Office promptly organized relevant local authorities. The bureau conducted interviews and rectifications on relevant e-commerce platforms. A total of 109 merchants were removed from the shelves, and 3,062 product links from 1,221 merchants were deleted.
The State Council Information Office held a regular briefing on the State Council’s policies on the morning of May 8. During the meeting, reporters asked questions: As the Internet becomes more popular and widely used, there are more and more intellectual property services under the "Internet +" model. There are also some problems in this model. What measures does the Intellectual Property Office have to solve the supervision in the process?
In this regard, Lei Xiaoyun said that in recent years, with the development of new models and new formats, "Internet +" intellectual property services have become an important format of the intellectual property service industry. While rapid development has helped innovation and entrepreneurship, it has also emerged Irregular business behavior.
In order to further promote the sustainable and healthy development of the intellectual property service industry, starting from 2019, the State Intellectual Property Office has organized a nationwide "blue sky" special rectification action for the intellectual property agency industry.
In the past two years, the State Intellectual Property Office and various local intellectual property offices have fully performed their regulatory responsibilities in the intellectual property service industry, innovated smart supervision models, monitored the status of intellectual property services on the network platform in real time, guided the network platform to conduct business in accordance with the law, and effectively regulated platform knowledge Property rights services have further created a good industry development environment.
The State Intellectual Property Office has mainly adopted the following measures:
The first is to centrally control the illegal patent prosecution of e-commerce platform merchants.
During the "Blue Sky Action", the State Intellectual Property Office, through active monitoring of relevant e-commerce platforms, found that some platform merchants illegally released patent agency business information and were suspected of unqualified patent agency behavior.
The State Intellectual Property Office promptly organized relevant local bureaus to conduct interviews and rectifications on relevant e-commerce platforms, requiring full performance of the platform’s responsibilities and regulating “black agency” behaviors in accordance with the law.
After the interview, the relevant e-commerce platform was quickly rectified. A total of 109 merchants were removed from the shelves, and 3,062 product links from 1,221 merchants were deleted.
The second is to regulate the online trademark agency and transaction behaviors of intellectual property service websites.
9 large-scale intellectual property service websites with a relatively large volume of trademark agency and transaction were monitored.
Entrust relevant professional institutions and judicial appraisal institutions to fix 27 sets of evidence for illegal activities in a timely manner with the help of technologies such as the Internet, big data, blockchain, and electronic deposits, and organize relevant local government intellectual property management departments to provide relevant intellectual property service agencies Make an appointment.
After the interview and rectification, the relevant platform removed more than 1.7 million malicious applications for trademarks suspected of not being used for the purpose of trading.
Lei Xiaoyun said that in the next step, the State Intellectual Property Office will continue to carry out in-depth "blue sky" special rectification actions in the intellectual property agency industry, and will standardize platform-based institutions as an important part of the rectification action, and strengthen the monitoring of the operating behaviors of platform-based institutions. , Intensify the crackdown, continue to promote the sound development of the new business form of "Internet +" intellectual property services, continue to improve the order of the intellectual property agency industry, and fully stimulate the vitality of market-oriented intellectual property services, in order to comprehensively strengthen intellectual property protection and build an intellectual property power Provide strong support.