CCTV News: The State Council Information Office held a series of theme press conferences on "Complete the 14th Five-Year Plan with high quality" on July 17, introducing new progress and new achievements in building a strong intellectual property country during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period.
Shen Changyu, director of the State Intellectual Property Administration, said that my country's intellectual property protection has reached a new level. In accordance with the decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee, we have continued to deepen reforms in the field of intellectual property rights and accelerated the establishment of an efficient comprehensive intellectual property management system. The State Intellectual Property Office has been adjusted to an agency directly under the State Council, and the effectiveness of intellectual property management has been significantly improved.
Complete a new round of comprehensive revisions to the Patent Law and establish a high-standard punitive compensation system.
Promote a new round of comprehensive revisions to the Trademark Law, and strive to resolve deep-seated contradictions and problems such as malicious registration, hoarding, and invalid trademarks from the institutional level.
Accelerate the revision of the "Regulations on the Protection of Integrated Circuit Layout Design" to meet the needs of the development of ultra-large-scale integrated circuits.
Establish a unified recognition system for geographical indications.
Construct data intellectual property protection rules.
Implement the construction project of the intellectual property protection system, improve the rapid coordinated protection mechanism of intellectual property rights, strengthen the response guidance for overseas intellectual property disputes, and lay out the construction of 128 national-level intellectual property protection centers and rapid rights protection centers nationwide.
Successfully won the battle to improve quality and efficiency of patents and trademark reviews, built an internationally leading patent intelligent patent examination and search system, reduced the average examination cycle of invention patents to 15.5 months, and the average examination cycle of trademark registration is stable at 4 months, both of which are among the fastest international level under the same examination system.
The social satisfaction level for intellectual property protection has increased from 80.05 points in 2020 to 82.36 points in 2024, and the overall situation has entered a good stage.
