Will a global innovation hub move east to Asia to become a global innovation leader?

(Focus on Boao) Will the global innovation center move east to Asia to become a global innovation leader?

　　China News Service, Boao, April 20 (Xie Yanbing) The sub-forum of the 2022 Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference "Asian Intellectual Property: Trends and Opportunities" was held in Boao on the 20th.

Experts at the meeting pointed out that the global innovation center is moving eastward to Asia, and it is necessary to strengthen international cooperation in intellectual property rights, expand cooperation mechanisms, and achieve mutual benefit and win-win results.

So, will Asia be the global innovation leader?

　　From 2021, intellectual property rights will be included in the permanent agenda of the Boao Forum for Asia, and relevant forums and roundtables will be held.

Li Baodong, Secretary-General of the Boao Forum for Asia and former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of China, said at the meeting that in the context of the current great changes in the world and the increasing uncertainties in the global economic recovery, innovation and intellectual property protection have become the focus of promoting scientific and technological progress, promoting industrial upgrading and An important driver of sustainable development.

　　Li Baodong said that at present, about 70% of the world's intellectual property applications come from Asia, and 60% of the R&D funds are invested in the Asian market. Asia's status as a global innovation leader is increasingly prominent.

　　Looking at the current global intellectual property map, many countries and regions in Asia pay more attention to intellectual property protection.

Asia has surpassed other regions in the number of patent applications, trademark applications, industrial design applications and domain name registrations.

　　Shen Changyu, member of the party group of the State Administration for Market Regulation, director of the State Intellectual Property Office and secretary of the party group, explained this point with a set of data at the forum: The "2021 Global Innovation Index Report" released by the World Intellectual Property Organization shows that there are 5 Asian economies. The world’s top 15 economies, of which China has risen to 12, ranking first among medium-sized economies; Japan’s Tokyo-Yokohama region, China’s Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou region, Beijing and Seoul are among the top 4 of the world’s “Best Technology Clusters” The number of SPT applications from Asia accounted for more than half of the total.

　　"The global innovation center is moving eastward to Asia, and China's performance is very bright." Liu Hua, director of the China Office of the World Intellectual Property Organization, said that in 2021, China will rank first in the ranking of systems such as the Madrid System of the Patent Cooperation Treaty. , third and tenth, Huawei has been the largest applicant of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) for five consecutive years.

China has a bright future in the global innovation landscape.

　　Looking back on 2021, there will be a large number of Chinese companies with independent intellectual property rights, such as the "Tianwen No. 1" Mars probe, the world's first nuclear power unit "Hualong No. A major breakthrough has been made in the research and development of "device".

　　Behind a series of scientific and technological innovation achievements, the good environment created by intellectual property protection is inseparable.

Li Baodong believes that China's formulation of relevant policies, capital investment and enforcement of intellectual property protection work are constantly strengthening.

　　Last year, China's top-level designs for strengthening intellectual property protection work were "released" one after another.

In September 2021, the Outline for Building a Powerful Intellectual Property Country (2021-2035) was issued. This is the first important document on intellectual property issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council. Target.

　　In October of the same year, the State Council of China issued the "14th Five-Year Plan for National Intellectual Property Protection and Utilization Plan", which clarified that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, intellectual property protection has reached a new level, the application has achieved new results, the service has reached a new level, and international cooperation has been achieved. "Four new" goals to achieve new breakthroughs.

　　Against the above background, how to highlight Asian characteristics in the global IP governance system has become increasingly important.

The forum focused on the problem-solving plan of "international cooperation", and it became the consensus of all parties to expand the intellectual property cooperation mechanism.

　　Zhang Jianchun, deputy director of the Central Propaganda Department, said that China's copyright work will use copyright as a medium to strengthen copyright exchanges and cooperation with other countries in the world, promote cultural communication and civilization exchanges, and use copyright to promote the building of a better Asia and the world.

　　In the ASEAN region, Singapore is a leader in intellectual property rights, and the number of domestic patent applications has grown steadily in recent years.

Chen Huijing, director of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore, pointed out at the meeting that the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) can be used to establish a patent cooperation agreement to promote international cooperation in intellectual property protection through a system.

　　Yu Xiang, Dean of the China-Europe Intellectual Property Research Institute of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, emphasized that countries should expand cooperation mechanisms.

He believes that the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) can save examination resources and allow the same invention patent to be granted quickly in different countries.

"More Asian countries can create conditions for signing PPH agreements with other Asian countries through the coordination of patent system examination standards and examination quality to achieve mutual benefit and win-win results."

　　Building a network of international IP offices has also become a form of cooperation.

Mr. Mori, the head of the Japan Patent Office, said at the meeting that the Japanese side is committed to creating a list of green transition technologies, which is a patent search and query system that will be available to the world.

Countries can use this tool to analyze worldwide patent applications related to climate change, environmental pollution, etc.

　　"The World Intellectual Property Organization is willing to work with the forum to strengthen cooperation in artificial intelligence, big data, new technologies of blockchain, and new outlets, and jointly create a new highland for intellectual property development in Asia." Liu Hua said.

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