China News Agency, Beijing, September 22. The "Outline for Building a Powerful Country with Intellectual Property Rights (2021-2035)" recently issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council revealed that China will speed up legislation on intellectual property rights in new fields and new formats such as big data, artificial intelligence, and genetic technology. , And establish and improve intellectual property protection rules for new technologies, new industries, new business formats, and new models.
The newly released outline pointed out that China’s intellectual property power must build an intellectual property system oriented to socialist modernization. In terms of building a comprehensive legal system with a rigorous structure and internal and external coordination, it includes accelerating new technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence, and genetic technology. Intellectual property legislation for new business types in the field.
The construction of the legal system also includes: timely revision of the Patent Law, Trademark Law, Copyright Law, and New Plant Variety Protection Regulations based on actual conditions, exploring the formulation of special laws and regulations such as geographical indications, industrial designs, and perfecting unified geographical indications that coordinate special protection and trademark protection The protection system, the improvement of integrated circuit layout design laws and regulations; the formulation and modification of laws and regulations in strengthening the protection of trade secrets, the improvement of the legal system for regulating intellectual property abuses, and the anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition legislation related to intellectual property; revising science Technological Progress Law; research and establish a special procedure legal system that conforms to the laws of intellectual property trials; comprehensively establish and implement a punitive compensation system for infringement, and increase compensation for damages.
In terms of constructing a system of intellectual property rights in emerging fields and specific fields that respond in a timely manner and protect rationally, while establishing and improving intellectual property rights protection rules for new technologies, new industries, new formats, and new models, explore and improve the intellectual property rights protection system in the Internet field; research; Construct data intellectual property rights protection rules; improve open source intellectual property rights and legal systems; research and improve algorithms, business methods, and artificial intelligence output intellectual property rights protection rules.
In addition, strengthen the construction of systems for the acquisition and benefit-sharing of genetic resources, traditional knowledge, and folklore, and strengthen the collection, sorting, transformation and utilization of intangible cultural heritage.
Promote the effective connection between the protection of traditional Chinese medicine knowledge and the modern intellectual property system, further improve the comprehensive protection system of Chinese medicine intellectual property rights, establish a special examination and protection mechanism for Chinese medicine patents, and promote the inheritance and innovation of Chinese medicine.
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