China News Service, April 24th. On the 24th, the State Council Information Office held a press conference on the development of China's intellectual property rights in 2021. Shen Changyu, director of the State Intellectual Property Office, introduced the development of China's intellectual property rights in 2021 at the meeting.

He said that in the past year, the relevant departments of intellectual property have steadily promoted the construction of a strong intellectual property country, and achieved remarkable results, realizing a good start to the "14th Five-Year Plan".

　　First, the quality and quantity of intellectual property creation increased.

A total of 696,000 invention patents were authorized throughout the year, and the number of high-value invention patents per 10,000 population reached 7.5, an increase of 1.2 over the previous year.

The number of international patent applications submitted by Chinese applicants through the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) reached 69,500, ranking first in the world for the third consecutive year.

7.739 million registered trademarks were approved and 5,928 applications for Madrid international registration from domestic applicants were received.

A total of 99 products were newly identified as protected geographical indications, and 477 were newly approved for registration of geographical indication certification marks and collective marks.

The number of works and computer software copyright registrations reached 3.984 million and 2.28 million respectively.

3,979 new plant variety rights were granted.

Completely cancel the subsidies and rewards for patent and trademark applications, and severely crack down on abnormal patent applications and malicious trademark registrations.

In the "2021 Global Innovation Index Report" released by the World Intellectual Property Organization, China ranks 12th in the world, with steady improvement for nine consecutive years.

　　Second, the protection of intellectual property rights is more powerful.

The newly revised Patent Law and Copyright Law came into effect.

The Central Office and the State Office issued the "Opinions on Further Strengthening Biodiversity Conservation".

Carry out inspections and assessments of intellectual property protection work and performance assessments of crackdowns on infringement and counterfeiting across the country.

25 new intellectual property protection centers and rapid rights protection centers have been established, and 22 local sub-centers of the National Overseas Intellectual Property Dispute Response Guidance Center have been established.

Investigated and dealt with 50,100 illegal cases in the fields of patents and trademarks.

49,800 administrative adjudication cases of patent infringement disputes were handled.

Accepted 64,800 IP dispute mediation cases.

2,957 infringement and piracy cases were investigated and handled, and 1.197 million infringement and piracy links were deleted.

A total of 79,200 batches of suspected infringing goods have been detained for import and export.

Newly received 635,000 intellectual property rights cases of first instance, second instance, and retrial of various types, and concluded 595,000 cases.

Approved the arrest of more than 7,800 people in more than 4,500 criminal cases involving intellectual property infringement.

21,000 cases of infringement and counterfeiting crimes were detected, 38,000 criminal suspects were arrested, and the total value of the cases involved was 9.53 billion yuan.

The social satisfaction of intellectual property protection further improved to 80.61 points.

　　Third, the benefits of intellectual property utilization have been significantly improved.

Statistics show that in 2020, the added value of patent-intensive industries will reach 12.13 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.8%, accounting for 11.97% of GDP.

The added value of the copyright industry reached 7.51 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 2.58%, accounting for 7.39% of GDP.

In 2021, the total amount of national patent and trademark pledge financing will reach 309.8 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 42%, benefiting 15,000 enterprises.

The total import and export of intellectual property royalties was 378.3 billion yuan, of which exports were 76.02 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 27.1%; the growth rate of exports exceeded that of imports by 10.5 percentage points.

A total of 219,000 technical contracts involving intellectual property were signed, and the turnover exceeded 1.4 trillion yuan.

42 intellectual property asset securitization products were issued, with an issuance scale of 9.5 billion yuan.

　　Fourth, the efficiency of intellectual property public services continued to improve.

The executive meeting of the State Council reviewed and approved the reform document on deepening the "delegation, regulation and service" in the field of intellectual property, and deployed 16 reform measures.

The quality and efficiency of intellectual property review continued to improve, the review cycle for high-value invention patents was reduced to 13.3 months, and the average review cycle for trademark registration was stabilized at 4 months, completing the five-year reduction cycle target set by the State Council ahead of schedule.

Intellectual property public service institutions have achieved full coverage of provincial-level and sub-provincial cities.

88 new national intellectual property information public service outlets and 50 new technology and innovation support centers were built.

10 new types of intellectual property data were newly opened, realizing the first opening of integrated circuit layout design data.

Launched the EU Trademark Search System.

Launched a special campaign for intellectual property information services, serving more than 300,000 small and medium-sized enterprises.

　　Fifth, international cooperation and competition in intellectual property rights were carried out in an orderly manner.

In-depth participation in global intellectual property governance, formally joining the Hague Agreement on the International Registration of Industrial Designs and the Marrakesh Treaty on Facilitating Access to Published Works for the Blind, Visually Impaired or Other Print Disabled, which will be Effective May 5th.

Successfully promoted RMB to become the international fee pricing and settlement currency related to PCT international patent applications of the World Intellectual Property Organization, and Chinese became the working language of the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants.

The China-EU Geographical Indication Agreement has been implemented in an orderly manner, and 244 China-EU geographical indication products have been mutually recognized and guaranteed.

The “Belt and Road” intellectual property cooperation has been solidly promoted. Statistics show that in 2021, the number of patent applications submitted by Chinese enterprises in the countries along the “Belt and Road” will be 8,596, a year-on-year increase of 29.4%; the number of patent authorizations will be 4,711, a year-on-year increase of 15.3% %.

In 2021, countries along the route will apply for 25,000 invention patents in China, an increase of 7.7% year-on-year; 16,000 are authorized, an increase of 18.1% year-on-year.

Conscientiously implement the relevant content of intellectual property rights in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).