In 2021, the number of valid invention patents in Jiangsu will be 349,000, 6.72 times higher than that at the end of 2012, and the number of invention patents owned by 10,000 people will be 41.17, 6.18 times higher than that at the end of 2012. With the ten-year leap, the level of intellectual property creation in our province has increased significantly and the quality of intellectual property output has steadily improved.
Zhi Suping, Director of Jiangsu Provincial Intellectual Property Office, said that since the 18th CPC National Congress, the province’s intellectual property system has been boldly innovative and active, taking the lead in the country to carry out work such as cultivation of high-value patents, conversion and operation of patents, construction of intellectual property protection demonstration zones, and construction of a rapid collaborative protection system for intellectual property, fully releasing the vitality of intellectual property creation in the whole society, and the province’s intellectual property business has developed vigorously and achieved remarkable The province’s intellectual property development has achieved remarkable results. In the next step, Jiangsu will be guided by Xi Jinping’s thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, comprehensively implement the decision and deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, and, in accordance with the requirements of the State Intellectual Property Office, continuously deepen the construction of a strong intellectual property province, make every effort to build “five regions and five highs” in intellectual property, and contribute Jiangsu’s wisdom to the construction of a strong intellectual property country.
Quality and quantity rise to “strengthen the bones” for scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement
In March this year, the State Intellectual Property Office authorized the 5 millionth invention patent in Jiangsu. “The patent is our and Xi’an Jiaotong University jointly developed ‘refrigeration system multi-chamber electronic expansion valve control method, device and refrigeration system’, mainly for new energy vehicle environmental testing equipment, can reduce energy consumption to one-third of the original.” Ltd. said that since its establishment in 2014, the company has been paying attention to innovation and intellectual property protection, and has become a “small giant” enterprise in Jiangsu Province, and this patent is only one of the 20 valid invention patents of the company.
For the booming intellectual property business in Jiangsu, the 5 millionth piece is a coincidence, but it is inevitable. As early as 2012, Jiangsu planned to move from quantitative growth to quality winning layout, promoting the quantity and quality of IP output, and stepping out of a high quality IP development road. In this year’s World Intellectual Property Organization’s first Global Award, three enterprises in our province were selected as the top 20 global companies, accounting for half of the country, and Suzhou Ripening won the Global Award. In the previous China Patent Awards, our province has won 900 awards, including 46 gold awards, 40 silver awards and 814 excellent awards, ranking among the top in the country in terms of total number of awards.
In order to improve the “gold content” of patents, in recent years, our province has continued to carry out the layout of high-value patents to achieve a high level of scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement “to strengthen the muscles and bones”.
Jiangsu is the first province to explore and carry out the cultivation of high-value patents. As early as 2015, in the Opinions on Accelerating the Construction of a Strong Intellectual Property Province issued by our province, it was clearly proposed that “the implementation of high-value patent cultivation plan” be implemented. In the same year, the Provincial Intellectual Property Office, together with the Provincial Department of Finance, set up the High-Value Patent Cultivation Program to support the leading backbone enterprises, universities and institutes in the industry to take the lead, together with high-quality intellectual property service institutions, to set up provincial high-value patent cultivation demonstration centers.
After eight years of practice and exploration, 99 provincial high-value patent incubation demonstration centers have been established in our province, and 333 municipal and county-level incubation centers have been set up around the province, covering key industries such as high-end equipment manufacturing, biomedicine, new materials, energy conservation and environmental protection. The province’s 432 high-value patent incubation centers focus on key core technologies, accelerate patent application and layout, and have become the core force to support the innovative development of 14 key industries.
The province has also cultivated a number of high-value patents and patent portfolios, which have achieved a profound metamorphosis from quantity to quality. The provincial high-value patent cultivation demonstration center has produced a total of more than 10,000 invention patent applications, nearly 5,000 invention patent licenses, more than 1,100 pct patent applications, and 330 standards participated or formulated during the cultivation period. The patents and patent combinations produced by the demonstration center have won a total of 10 Chinese patent prizes in the past 8 years, accounting for 21.7% of the province’s Chinese patent gold prizes, fully demonstrating the “gold content” of high-value patents.
In the process of cultivating high-value patents, a number of excellent enterprise representatives have emerged in our province who rely on independent intellectual property rights to win and realize the real transformation from introduction to creation.
Some enterprises independently developed patent technology out of the country and achieved high returns. For example, Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. licensed innovative drugs with independent intellectual property rights to American companies, realizing the transformation of patented drug technology from import to export. Some industrial fields achieve key technology breakthrough. For example, Connie electromechanics, China Che Qishuyan, etc., broke foreign technical barriers, formed patent layout in the field of high-speed rolling stock core components, and independent intellectual property products are widely used in the “Fuxing” rolling stock, realizing independent control of key core technologies. Some enterprises have become the industry leader. Such as Jiangsu Subot always adhere to scientific and technological innovation to lead, and a large number of independent intellectual property rights with innovative achievements, and widely used in the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, the Three Gorges Project, Tianwan nuclear power and other key projects, has been ranked for many years in China’s concrete admixture industry, the first comprehensive strength.
“At present, we need independent innovation more than ever, and we need the support of high-value patents more than ever.” Zhang Chuanbo, deputy director of Jiangsu Provincial Intellectual Property Office, said that Jiangsu will further deepen the cultivation of high-value patents, accelerate the creation and reserve of high-value patents in key industrial fields; further optimize the key support objects, small and medium-sized enterprises, especially the “small giant” and manufacturing single champion enterprises into the key support scope, to create a number of Further strengthen the demonstration and promotion of experience, and make greater contribution to the realization of high-level scientific and technological self-sufficiency and industrial self-control.
Navigation help to make industrial development “targeted”
Recently, the Jiangsu Provincial Institute of Scientific and Technological Information (hereinafter referred to as “the Provincial Institute”) cooperated with the Science and Technology Innovation Bureau of Nanjing Jiangbei New District Management Committee to conduct patent navigation analysis for the industry field of “blockchain + medical health”.
Li Xianghui, deputy director of the Intellectual Property Evaluation Service Center of the provincial intelligence institute, said that the research group conducted a panoramic and comparative study for the key industrial clustering direction of “blockchain+health”, screened out more than 1,200 closely related patents, deconstructed the underlying key technologies through the knowledge mapping method with the patent map as the core, explored core application scenarios, mapping the industry around three major segments of electronic medical records, pharmaceutical supply chain, medical insurance and payment, forming a patent navigation analysis report, and providing scientific support for the innovation and development of more than 50 enterprises in the field.
“Patent navigation plays a ‘lighthouse’-like guiding role for the innovation and R&D of industries and enterprises, and also constantly reminds us to continuously improve our awareness of intellectual property risk prevention.” The person in charge of the relevant enterprise said that according to this patent navigation analysis report, they are now actively carrying out patent layout around technological innovation and product development.
“Patent navigation analysis with patent data as the core and deep integration of various data resources can provide a panoramic analysis of regional development positioning, industrial competition pattern, enterprise business decisions and technological innovation direction, realize effective allocation of innovation resources and improve the accuracy and science of innovation decisions.” Li Xianghui introduced, since 2013 patent navigation was first included in the annual national intellectual property strategy implementation promotion plan, China in a number of key industries to carry out patent navigation industry development and patent layout pilot, Jiangsu became one of the earlier provinces to carry out patent navigation exploration and practice.
It is understood that 10 patent navigation service bases have been filed in our province, exploring the way for the pilot patent navigation service system construction in the province. Jiangsu Intellectual Property Protection Center and Jiangsu University have been selected as national patent navigation project support service institutions. In Nanjing, Changzhou, Zhenjiang and other places, patent navigation has been fully integrated into the development of local industries.
“Patent navigation is to find out the shortcomings and deficiencies in industrial development through the analysis of patent big data and locate the direction of industrial development, which can provide guidelines and decision-making reference for the government to implement industrial planning and industrial layout.” Lu Jieping, director of the National Patent Navigation Pilot Project (Jiangsu) Research Base, said that through patent navigation, the innovation and research and development of industries and enterprises can be targeted, which can achieve twice the result with half the effort, while avoiding the risk of patent infringement.
He cited the example that in 2021, Zhenjiang City, combined with the construction of strong industrial chains, implemented the patent navigation analysis of intelligent agricultural machinery industry and combed a total of 900,000 patents. By analyzing the global patent distribution status of the agricultural machinery industry, positioning Zhenjiang’s agricultural machinery industry in the global and national industrial chain, identifying the shortcomings and shortcomings of industrial development, further clarifying the direction and focus of industrial development, the main intelligent agricultural machinery enterprises, major R&D institutions and inventor teams worldwide are clear at a glance.
“We specifically submitted to the government to guide the development of Zhenjiang agricultural machinery industry directory, including what is the key direction of future industrial development, which key technology core technology requires us to organize forces to attack, how to layout patents to protect our industrial core technology, how to avoid the risk of patent infringement in industrial development, etc., and for industrial investment and talent attraction Provide reference.” Lu Jieping said, agricultural machinery enterprises according to the patent navigation to form the industrial patent database to search and analysis, to determine their own innovative research and development direction, foreign companies have been a large number of patent layout technology, enterprises can obtain risk tips, in product development for effective avoidance, can avoid huge losses brought about by infringement.
In recent years, the province has used patent navigation analysis to give full play to the role of intellectual property rights to support the industry to strengthen the chain and complement the chain, and further promote the development of advantageous industrial clusters.
In 2020, focusing on 13 advanced manufacturing clusters such as integrated circuits, offshore equipment and new electric power, which are key to the development of our province, the Jiangsu Provincial Intellectual Property Protection Center carried out intellectual property navigation reviews, analyzed the focus and hot spots as well as the shortcomings of industrial R&D in Jiangsu clusters, and made development suggestions in industrial technology innovation, cooperation between industries, universities and research institutes, and attracting investment and wisdom to support the transformation and upgrading of 13 advanced manufacturing clusters.
In 2021, focusing on the 6 lower refined technologies and “neck” technologies of advanced manufacturing industry clusters, Jiangsu Intellectual Property Protection Center further carried out the navigation evaluation of refined technologies, focusing on the analysis of the patent layout technology points of foreign monopolies and the development of “neck” technologies by relevant research institutions and enterprises in Jiangsu. The risk analysis of intellectual property rights of “neck” technology, from the core technology to avoid the design, “neck” technology precision industry-university-research cooperation, alternative technology investment, the introduction of talent and improve the system and other aspects to give advice.
Transformation smoothly promote the market and innovation “hand to meet”
790 pieces in 2012, 3247 pieces in 2017, 9167 pieces in 2021 …… Over the past ten years, the number of patents transferred by universities and institutes in our province has jumped year by year, and they all rank first in the country.
“No matter how many patents are created, the key is to use. While universities do a good job of creating high-value patents, they should also do a good job of using them efficiently and effectively.” Jiang Dong, director of the Research Institute of Nanjing Agricultural University, said that the latest achievements of the university’s Professor Li Chunbao’s team about meat quality rapid detection technology were successfully transferred to Suzhou Newmark Analytical Instruments Co. Through this technology transfer, it will pioneer the application of low-field nuclear magnetic resonance in China’s food testing and lead the high-quality development of food fast inspection technology, “enterprises are willing to pay for the results, only to show that the patent has truly become a ‘dividend’.”
Last year, the Provincial Department of Finance and the Provincial Intellectual Property Office jointly implemented a special plan for patent transformation, and obtained 100 million yuan of central financial funds to support 20 universities and institutes, 5 industrial parks to build intellectual property operation centers, 8 institutions to build public service platforms, and 4 district cities to build patent transformation leading cities, which greatly promoted the transformation and application of intellectual property rights.
“After the school was selected for the patent transformation special project, through the implementation of the project, it further strengthened the awareness of patent layout, built a real-time patent transformation pool, and promoted the formation of a benign flow of intellectual property technology to enterprise products.” Chen Wei, Director of Social Cooperation Department of Nanjing Agricultural University, said that the university actively dovetailed with the technological needs of enterprises, overcame the impact of the epidemic to carry out patent transformation work online and offline, and assisted enterprises in analyzing and researching development “pain points”. In the online results roadshow of Nanjing Agricultural University conducted by the provincial technology property market, experts from the university conducted in-depth communication with entrepreneurs through wonderful project roadshow and results promotion, attracting more than 160 enterprises to participate and finally contributing to more than 60 cooperation intentions.
In order to promote the reform of patent rights and interests distribution, in recent years, the Provincial Department of Education and the Provincial Intellectual Property Office have jointly carried out pilot projects of intellectual property rights division and joint application system in Jiangsu University, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications and Nanjing University of Technology to fully mobilize the enthusiasm of scientific researchers in higher education for patent transformation and implementation; and jointly carried out patent “auction season” with the Provincial Department of Science and Technology and the Provincial Department of Education to promote patent transformation in higher education. The “Patent Auction Season” activity is carried out jointly with the Provincial Department of Science and Technology and the Provincial Department of Education to promote the transformation and application of patents in universities.
As the first university in China to set up an independent intellectual property management department, Jiangsu University has a market-oriented patent service team. “The university has been insisting on transformation orientation and quality priority, and has taken the lead in carrying out patent confirmation and division, pre-patent application evaluation, patent grading management, patent open licensing, and on-campus high-value patent cultivation projects, setting up patent service specialists for key research teams, collaborating with innovation and R&D, and carrying out in-depth high-value patent layout.” Han Kui Guo, vice president of the Institute of Intellectual Property of Jiangsu University, said.
For example, in view of the harvesting problem of high-yield rice in China, Jiangsu University has developed the key technology and equipment of combined harvesting to adapt to the high-yield rice harvesting in China, applied for 106 domestic invention patents and 11 national patent applications, and formed a patent layout around 8 core products, of which the core patent “an axial feeding type rice and wheat threshing and separating The core patent “an axial feeding type rice and wheat threshing and separating device” won the Chinese Patent Gold Award. The university actively promotes the implementation and application of this series of patents, and the main patents have been applied in the way of general license in the leading enterprises of crawler combine harvester, such as Jiangsu Wode Agricultural Machinery Co. In the past three years, a total of more than 80,000 sales of products, related products exported to Thailand, Iran and other more than 10 countries, with significant economic benefits.
In recent years, relying on the platform of provincial technology property rights trading market, the province has jointly promoted the release of information and public listing of scientific and technological achievements of universities in the province to promote technology trading; organized the brand activity of “unveiling and hanging” technology transfer to promote the transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements of universities in the province, and achieved obvious results.
By the end of 2021, 77 colleges and universities in the province had released 5810 scientific and technological achievements on the platform of provincial technology property rights market; in 2021, 1932 patents (achievements) of colleges and universities in the province were selected to participate in the auction season, 75 of which were sold in the auction, and 106 technical solutions were collected through “unveiling the list”, 59 of which were sold in the auction. A total of 134 technology transactions were achieved through the two events.
Post time: Nov-16-2022