Shen Changyu's exclusive interview with science and Technology Daily: comprehensively strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights and speed up the construction of an intellectual property power
2021-01-13
According to the announcement on the added value of national patent intensive industries in 2019 jointly issued by the State Intellectual Property Office and the State Bureau of Statistics recently, the added value of national patent intensive industries was 11463.1 billion yuan in 2019, an increase of 7.0% over the previous year (without deduction of price factors). The scale of patent intensive industry in China keeps steady growth, reflecting the new progress of economic structure optimization and the transformation of growth kinetic energy, reflecting the new effect of innovation driven development, and the important role of patent intensive industry supporting high-quality economic development has been further played.As general secretary Xi Jinping emphasized, protecting intellectual property rights is to protect innovation. The proposal of the CPC Central Committee on the formulation of the 14th five-year plan for national economic and social development and the vision objectives of 2015 (hereinafter referred to as the "proposal") put forward clear requirements for strengthening the protection of intellectual property rights. How can the State Intellectual Property Office implement the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee and promote the transformation of China from a large country that has introduced intellectual property to a great country in the creation of intellectual property rights? The science and Technology Daily reporter interviewed shenchangyu, director of the State Intellectual Property Office.Reporter: the proposal puts forward "strengthening the protection of intellectual property rights and greatly improving the effect of transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements". In the twenty-fifth collective learning of the Central Political Bureau, general secretary Xi Jinping stressed that in building a modern socialist country in an all-round way, we must comprehensively strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights from the perspective of the national strategic height and the requirements for entering the new stage of development. Why do you think the general secretary has put the work of intellectual property protection so important?Shen Changyu: in November 30, 2020, the Central Political Bureau held a collective learning on strengthening our intellectual property protection. General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over and delivered an important speech. He provided a fundamental guide for the new era to strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights in China. This is consistent with the requirements of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee. Innovation is the first driving force to lead development, and protecting intellectual property is to protect innovation. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the CPC Central Committee has put the work of intellectual property protection in a more prominent position, and has promoted a series of reforms, issued a series of major policies, actions and plans, implemented strict intellectual property protection system, resolutely punished the infringement of intellectual property rights in accordance with law, led the development of intellectual property in China and walked out of a development of intellectual property rights with Chinese characteristics On the way of exhibition, the protection of intellectual property has made historic achievements and strongly supported the economic and social development.General secretary Xi Jinping stressed that the protection of intellectual property rights is related to the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, the development of high quality, the happiness of people's lives, the overall situation of opening up to the outside world and the national security. The five relationships have profoundly explained the connotation and strategic significance of the work of intellectual property protection, and raised the work of intellectual property protection to an unprecedented height. In order to build a socialist modern country, we must strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights, promote the construction of a modern economic system, stimulate the vitality of innovation in the whole society and promote the construction of a new development pattern. At present, the State Intellectual Property Office is continuing to thoroughly study and implement the spirit of general secretary Xi Jinping's important speech, and has made specific plans for its implementation.Reporter: what challenges do the new domestic and international situation pose to the work of intellectual property rights?Shenchangyu: facing the new era and new development stage, we should focus on "two overall situations", combine the national innovation and development needs and international competition situation, deeply understand the new challenges and requirements of the new domestic and international situation to the work of intellectual property rights, and always follow the party's guidance.From the domestic perspective, the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the CPC has made strategic deployment based on the new development stage, implementing the new development concept, building a new development pattern and promoting high-quality development, which requires more powerful support from intellectual property. In general, general secretary Xi Jinping, when he presided over the twenty-fifth collective learning of the Central Political Bureau, pointed out that at present, China is changing from the introduction of intellectual property to a big country in intellectual property creation. The work of intellectual property is changing from seeking quantity to improving quality, which clearly shows the historical position and the direction of continuous struggle for the development of intellectual property in China.Internationally, novel coronavirus pneumonia is a major change in the world. The global epidemic of the new crown pneumonia epidemic has accelerated the great change. Scientific and technological innovation is one of the key variables. We must answer the scientific and technological innovation if we want to develop the opportunity in the crisis and open a new situation in the changing situation. As the basic guarantee of encouraging innovation, intellectual property system has become an important support for the construction of innovative countries and the key to master the initiative of development.Therefore, we should recognize the situation and tasks of intellectual property work in China, summarize the achievements, find out the shortcomings, improve the understanding of the importance of intellectual property protection, and provide strong support for the implementation of new development concept, construction of new development pattern and promotion of high-quality development from the aspect of strengthening the work of intellectual property protection.Reporter: it is understood that China is working out the "14th five year plan" of intellectual property and the strategic outline for a powerful intellectual property power. Can you introduce this situation? What kind of consideration does intellectual property protection have?Shen Changyu: in accordance with the important instructions of general secretary Xi Jinping and the decision making arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, the State Intellectual Property Office is leading the formulation of the national intellectual property protection and utilization plan for the period of 14th Five-Year and the outline of the strategy for strengthening intellectual property rights in 2035. This will be a programmatic document guiding the development of intellectual property in the future.In accordance with general secretary Xi Jinping's earnest research and formulation of the national intellectual property protection and utilization plan in the "14th Five-Year" period, the important instructions of objectives, tasks, measures and implementation blueprint are clearly defined, and the State Intellectual Property Office (IPR) promotes the formulation of plans and plans a number of key projects and items. At present, the plan has completed the consultation work at the local level and has carried out several rounds of modification. In the follow-up, we will further increase our investment in power and make careful efforts to ensure that a high-quality plan that meets the requirements of the Central Committee, meets the expectations of the masses and reflects the characteristics of the times.In the process of formulating the strategic outline of a powerful intellectual property power, we should focus on focusing on the goal of building a socialist modernization country in an all-round way, accurately grasp the role of intellectual property in the overall situation of national economic and social development, and plan a good vision for the future 15 years of intellectual property development in view of the domestic and international development environment and challenges facing the development of intellectual property Plan to ensure that it is in line with the national vision and objectives in 2035. In terms of specific measures, we adhere to the high-quality development ideas, high standard protection direction and high efficiency application objectives, and launch a series of innovative measures to effectively support the realization of national development goals.Reporter: what is the key point of intellectual property protection in China in the future?Shen Changyu: in his important speech, general secretary Xi Jinping has made six important instructions on strengthening the protection of intellectual property rights in an all-round way, which has made clear the direction for us to do the next step. The State Intellectual Property Office will establish a systematic concept, grasp the key points of work, grasp the key links, and achieve overall promotion and integrated implementation.First, strengthen the top-level design of intellectual property protection. That is to say, we should formulate and issue the national intellectual property protection and application plan during the period of the 14th five year plan, and make an organic link with the national "14th five year plan", regional and industrial major development strategies. Cooperate with the printing and implementation of the strategic outline for the powerful intellectual property rights, and strengthen the coordinated linkage of the implementation of the outline. We will vigorously implement patent quality improvement projects, promote key core technology breakthroughs and strengthen technical reserves.Second, improve the level of the rule of law in the protection of intellectual property rights. We will speed up the revision of the detailed rules for the implementation of the patent law, promote the revision and argumentation of trademark law and the revision of the provisions on the protection of geographical indications products, and do a good job in the legislative investigation of geographical indications. Research and formulate the rules for the protection of intellectual property rights in new fields such as big data, artificial intelligence and gene technology. We will promote the organic unity of the standards of examination and authorization, judgment of infringement, administrative law enforcement and judicial judgment, strengthen the guidance of patent and trademark administrative law enforcement and give full play to the protection role of administrative law enforcement.Third, strengthen the protection of the whole chain of intellectual property. The high standard implements the opinions on strengthening the protection of intellectual property rights and constructs the pattern of great protection. We will continue to improve the quality and efficiency of intellectual property review, establish and improve the quality control mechanism of patent and trademark review, improve the quality of the verification of the right of the examination authorization, and strengthen the protection of the source. We will strengthen the construction of intellectual property information and intelligent infrastructure, and promote the integration of intellectual property protection line on line and offline. We will promote the construction of the integrity system in the field of intellectual property, strengthen the publicity and education of intellectual property protection, and strengthen the awareness of respect and protection of intellectual property in the whole society.Fourth, deepen the reform of the work system and mechanism of intellectual property protection. We will implement a series of reform and deployment of the Central Committee on intellectual property protection, and achieve system integration, collaborative promotion and effectiveness. We should strengthen the central power of intellectual property protection and fully mobilize the enthusiasm of local work. Cooperate with the General Administration of market supervision to do a good job in the anti-monopoly work in the field of intellectual property, prevent the abuse of intellectual property rights, and promote the independent and orderly flow and efficient allocation of innovation elements.Fifth, we will promote international cooperation and competition in the field of intellectual property. Actively participate in multilateral affairs within the framework of the world intellectual property organization, and further enhance China's discourse power and influence in the international affairs of intellectual property rights. We will promote the improvement of intellectual property rights and relevant international trade and international investment rules and standards. A new mechanism of one belt, one road Intellectual Property Cooperation under epidemic prevention and control is studied. We will fully implement the intellectual property section of the regional comprehensive economic partnership agreement (RCEP), and implement the China EU and France geographical indication agreements. In accordance with the unified deployment of the Central Committee, the implementation of relevant provisions of intellectual property rights of Sino US economic and trade agreements will be promoted. We will increase the publicity of intellectual property, tell the Chinese intellectual property story well, and display the image of a civilized and responsible power.Sixth, to safeguard the national security in the field of intellectual property rights. We will implement the relevant measures for the transfer of intellectual property to the outside world (Trial Implementation), improve the system of examination of the transfer of intellectual property to the outside world, and strengthen the management of the transfer of intellectual property related to national security. We will accelerate the construction and operation of the national overseas intellectual property dispute response guidance center, strengthen the risk warning and protection assistance of overseas intellectual property rights of Chinese enterprises, effectively respond to international competition in the field of intellectual property, and resolutely safeguard the national development interests. (Science and technology daily)
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