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Spokesperson and Office Director of the State Intellectual Property Office Heng Fuguang

The Outline for Building a Powerful Country on Intellectual Property proposes to vigorously develop high-end national intellectual property think tanks and characteristic think tanks. The spokesperson just now also introduced that the State Intellectual Property Office has been strengthening the construction of intellectual property expert think tanks. Can you give a detailed introduction to the relevant situation?

Cao Hongying, first-level inspector of the Personnel Department of the State Intellectual Property Office

CCTV reporter

Thank you for your question. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China emphasized “strengthening the legal protection of intellectual property rights and forming a basic system to support comprehensive innovation.” This is a clear requirement for intellectual property work and a major strategic deployment for the development of intellectual property. Studying, publicizing and implementing the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is the primary political task at present and in the future. Our National Intellectual Property Publicity Week is an important arrangement for studying, publicizing and implementing the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in the field of intellectual property.

The theme of this year’s National Intellectual Property Publicity Week is “Strengthening Legal Protection of Intellectual Property Rights and Strongly Supporting Comprehensive Innovation.” Our Bureau, the Central Propaganda Department (National Copyright Administration), and the State Administration for Market Regulation will work with all member units of the Publicity Week Organizing Committee to carry out publicity activities from the four perspectives of scientific legislation, strict law enforcement, fair justice, and law-abiding by all people, to further cultivate " The intellectual property cultural concepts of "respecting knowledge, advocating innovation, being honest and law-abiding, and fair competition" will enhance the public's awareness of respecting and protecting intellectual property rights, further promote the legalization of intellectual property work, and better exert the rule of law to consolidate the foundation, stabilize expectations, and benefit in the long run. It plays a basic guarantee role and actively supports the construction of a strong country with intellectual property rights.

During the event, we will coordinate various localities and departments to focus on publicity in five aspects. The first is to thoroughly publicize and implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, especially General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions on intellectual property work. The second is to comprehensively publicize and implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Second Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the spirit of the National Two Sessions. The third is to continue to publicize the implementation of the outline of building a strong country in intellectual property rights and the "14th Five-Year Plan". The fourth is to systematically publicize the historic achievements and changes that have occurred in China’s intellectual property development in the past ten years in the new era. The fifth is to widely publicize the vivid practice of people-centered intellectual property work and serving the people's better life.

Here, I would also like to emphasize that this year marks the 50th anniversary of cooperation between my country and the World Intellectual Property Organization. This year’s Publicity Week activities will also be held in conjunction with the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of cooperation between my country and the World Intellectual Property Organization to further expand the internal and external publicity effect of intellectual property rights and enhance the international influence and communication power of the Intellectual Property Publicity Week. Thanks.

We know that a major feature of patent protection is to promote continuous innovation and iterative development of technology through effective patent disclosure and information disclosure. Patent documents are an important carrier for recording scientific and technological innovation. Can you introduce the work of the State Intellectual Property Office in developing and utilizing patent documents to serve scientific and technological innovation?

Thank you for your question. Patent documents are the world's largest scientific and technological database and an important "toolbox" for scientific and technological innovation activities. Many inventions and creations are inspired by published patent documents and realized by standing on the shoulders of their predecessors.

The State Intellectual Property Office attaches great importance to the development and utilization of patent documents. Up to now, a total of 540 types of patent document resources have been allocated and 118 patent document service outlets have been built to provide continuous information support for innovation activities through public services such as patent information retrieval and analysis, industrial database construction, and patent navigation.

The first is to provide multi-level and professional patent document services for national strategic scientific and technological forces and "specialized, innovative" small and medium-sized enterprises. The patent information service platform for 13 national key industries including chips, rare earths, automobiles, and traditional Chinese medicine has been launched online to assist relevant scientific research institutions and enterprises in key technology research and intellectual property protection and application.

The second is to carry out professional training on patent information utilization and patent information mining for service organizations such as patent document service outlets, technology and innovation support centers, university intellectual property information service centers, and intellectual property protection centers to effectively improve the professionalization and standardization of patent document services. The level of development.

The third is to promote the dissemination and sharing of typical experiences and practices in patent information services. Typical cases such as "Patent Information Supports Enterprise Technology R&D and Protection", "Patent Information Supports Patent Mining Layout", "Patent Information Supports High-Value Patent Cultivation" and "Patent Navigation Promote Scientific Research and Innovation in Colleges and Universities" were formed to exchange and share experiences in the utilization of patent documents by colleges and universities. Useful experiences can provide reference for innovation entities and service organizations.

In the next step, we will further explore the value of patent documents, cultivate information utilization talents, promote the dissemination of typical experiences, and continue to empower technological innovation and high-quality development. Thanks.

Team building is the foundation for entrepreneurs to start a business. Can you give a detailed introduction to what the State Intellectual Property Office has done to improve the professional capabilities of intellectual property administrative personnel and build a high-quality intellectual property team?

Thank you for your question. Intellectual property rights are highly professional and the work requirements are high. In order to overall improve the professional capabilities and service levels of intellectual property administrative personnel, the State Intellectual Property Administration has carried out comprehensive and systematic rotation training for local intellectual property administrative personnel starting in 2019. So far, rotation training for intellectual property administrative personnel has been held There have been nearly 140 classes, with a total of 39,000 trainees. It is planned to achieve full coverage of rotation training for local intellectual property administrative personnel by 2025. We have mainly carried out the following three aspects of work.

The first is to effectively strengthen political leadership. We always give top priority to the in-depth study and implementation of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and require the national intellectual property system and various intellectual property training bases to in-depth study and implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Party and General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions on intellectual property work. . In 2023, when formulating the annual training plan, it focused on the training requirements in the legal protection of intellectual property rights, the role of intellectual property rights in stimulating innovation internally and promoting opening up externally, and promoting the optimization of the business environment, and further deepened the national intellectual property talent training work. Implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

The second is to continue to promote the construction of online training courses. Give full play to the advantages of online courses such as wide coverage and convenience for students to learn anytime and anywhere, and increase efforts in the development of online courses. 75 high-quality intellectual property courses have been recorded and launched online, and more than 450 free and open online courses, with an average annual training number of more than 240,000 people. We have actively carried out the construction of distance education platforms and established a multi-level distance training network with the main station of China Intellectual Property Training Center, 24 sub-platforms and 228 sub-stations.

The third is to continuously improve the quality of training work. Strengthen the overall planning and coordination of training content, focusing on the outline of building a strong country with intellectual property rights, the implementation of the "14th Five-Year Plan" and the "4+1" talent team, that is, intellectual property protection, application, public services, internationalization and basic talent team building Wait for key tasks and set training topics. Actively carry out research on intellectual property talent work to understand the training needs of local intellectual property administrative departments, innovation entities, service agencies, etc., optimize training content, and enhance the pertinence of training. Organize and carry out intellectual property training and evaluation work to improve the quality and effectiveness of training work.

In the next step, the State Intellectual Property Office will continue to work around the intellectual property center, focus on new intellectual property issues emerging in new fields and new business formats, continue to strengthen the rotation training of intellectual property administrative personnel, and continue to improve business capabilities and management levels. Thanks.

We have noticed that the National Intellectual Property Publicity Week activities every year have new highlights and many innovations. Could you please introduce the features of this year’s activities that are worthy of attention?

Thank you for your question. The just-concluded Second Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the National Two Sessions reviewed and approved the institutional reform plan of the State Council, making major arrangements for improving the intellectual property management system, which fully reflects the high importance and ardent expectations of the Party Central Committee and the State Council on intellectual property work. In this context, it is of great significance to organize the National Intellectual Property Publicity Week. Regarding this year’s publicity week activities, there are three characteristics in summary.

First, the activity structure is upgraded and expanded. In terms of working mechanism, the publicity week activities will usher in a new situation of the "three leads" work of the State Intellectual Property Office, the Central Propaganda Department (National Copyright Administration), and the State Administration for Market Regulation. The Central Propaganda Department is the department in charge of news, public opinion and copyright work. As the director unit, participating in the activities will effectively enhance the effectiveness and influence of the Publicity Week activities. At the same time, China Council for the Promotion of International Trade will officially participate in the event as a member of the organizing committee. The participation of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade is of great significance to enhancing the international influence of the Promotion Week.

The second is to jointly promote the central and local governments. Awareness Week activities are planned to be held from April 20th to 26th. On April 20, a nationwide intellectual property promotion boom will be launched through a combination of online and offline methods. The organizing committee will hold an online launching ceremony in Beijing, and comprehensively consider the effectiveness of intellectual property work, regional publicity resources and other factors, and select five representative provinces, districts and cities in the east, west, south, north and central as branch venues to hold on-site activities. During the publicity week, thousands of special activities will be carried out across the country in accordance with unified arrangements to promote the promotion of intellectual property culture into institutions, enterprises, communities, campuses, and into the daily lives of the public.

Third, the content is rich and worth looking forward to. In the promotion week activities of the past two years, we have invited Sa Beining, Yi Yang Qianxi, etc. as spokespersons. Everyone has also put more expectations on this year's spokesperson guests. This year we will invite more heavyweight guests to endorse the promotion week activities. In addition, art creation and dialogue interview activities will be carried out on new media platforms, and well-known artists will be invited to create works for the promotion week activities, which will be displayed through a combination of physical objects and digital collections. We will also organize physical activities based on the important progress of intellectual property work, review the development process of intellectual property, and look forward to the bright prospects of building a strong intellectual property country. We hope that media friends will actively participate in publicity and reporting. Thanks.

As public awareness of intellectual property rights increases, intellectual property training is receiving more and more attention. The spokesperson just introduced that in the past year, the State Intellectual Property Office held 64 public welfare lectures. How can the public use and participate in these public welfare lectures and obtain relevant knowledge?

Thank you for your question. The State Intellectual Property Office attaches great importance to raising public awareness of intellectual property rights and actively builds an intellectual property training and education platform. The public welfare lecture mentioned by this media friend just now is a specific work carried out by our office in the aspect of intellectual property training.

The public welfare lecture is a free activity carried out by our office for the public based on the Patent Literature Library. It adopts a three-in-one model of "on-site teaching + live webcast + platform on-demand" and is held on time every Friday afternoon. The purpose of public welfare lectures is to interpret intellectual property systems and policies based on the needs of the public, popularize basic intellectual property knowledge and skills, share practical cases and experiences in intellectual property work, and provide equal opportunities for intellectual property popularization education and training to the public. From 2017 to 2022, 426 live broadcasts of public welfare lectures have been held, nearly 400 courses on 110 topics have been released, and the number of video on-demand has reached 318,000.

In order to continuously improve the quality of lectures and not only meet the public's requirements for intellectual property popularization, but also meet the technical, practical and professional needs of innovative subjects, we take into account different levels of knowledge enlightenment, technology popularization and high-end hot topics in course planning. , covering different types of intellectual property rights such as patents, trademarks, geographical indications and integrated circuit layout designs, involving the entire process of intellectual property creation, application, protection, management and services. In terms of teaching teachers, we invite business backbones inside and outside the office, senior experts and scholars in the industry, and corporate intellectual property personnel to give lectures.

In the next step, we will be guided by social needs, further improve the quality of public welfare lectures, enhance the influence of public welfare lectures, meet the needs of innovative entities to a greater extent, and actively help the public to continue to increase their awareness of respecting and protecting intellectual property rights. Thanks.

The spokesperson just introduced the successful promotion of the establishment of a new "Intellectual Property Professional Degree" in 2022. Can you give a detailed introduction to the progress of the construction of intellectual property professional degrees?

Thank you for your question. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China emphasized that talents are the first resource, and it is necessary to thoroughly implement the strategy of strengthening the country through talents, adhere to the leadership of talents, comprehensively improve the quality of independent training of talents, and point out the direction for comprehensively promoting the high-quality development of intellectual property talents in the new era. Intellectual property professional degree education is an important way to cultivate urgently needed talents in building an intellectual property power. It is an important way to implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping on "paying attention to the construction of an intellectual property talent team" and to further improve the training of intellectual property talents. important measures of the system. The State Intellectual Property Office attaches great importance to the work related to the construction of intellectual property professional degrees. Since last September, the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council and the Ministry of Education issued the "Graduate Education Discipline Professional Catalog (2022)", and a new intellectual property master's degree category has been established in education. Under the coordination and guidance of the Ministry of Finance, the following work has been focused on.

First, actively cooperate with the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council and the Ministry of Education in establishing the National Intellectual Property Professional Degree Graduate Education Steering Committee, and recommend candidates for industry committee members of the Intellectual Property Professional Degree Education Steering Committee to the Office of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee.

The second is to carry out solid research on professional degree construction. We have conducted online and offline surveys at 17 universities, including Tsinghua University, Peking University, Renmin University of China, and University of Science and Technology of China, to understand the training of intellectual property talents and solicit opinions and suggestions on promoting the construction of intellectual property master's degrees. At the same time, a survey on the talent training situation of relevant national intellectual property training bases was carried out to fully understand the situation of intellectual property talent training.

The third is to organize research on the construction of a professional degree talent training system and formulate a work plan to promote the construction of a professional degree talent training system for intellectual property rights. Support relevant universities to carry out seminars on the construction of intellectual property professional degrees, and organize experts and scholars from 25 universities including Renmin University of China, Tongji University, and Xiamen University to discuss the construction of professional intellectual property degrees, so as to carry out high-quality and efficient training of intellectual property master's degree graduates. Promote the healthy and orderly development of my country's intellectual property professional degree postgraduate education and provide scientific theoretical support.

In the next step, the State Intellectual Property Office will continue to actively carry out professional degree construction work to lay a solid foundation for further improving the intellectual property talent training system. Thanks.

Due to time constraints, the questions will end here.

In less than a month, the 2023 National Intellectual Property Publicity Week will kick off. I just introduced that there are many new features of the publicity week activities that deserve attention. I hope that all friends from the media will actively publicize and report extensively. In addition, in order to better grasp the construction of intellectual property culture and provide you with richer promotional materials for news reports, this year we will also explore holding a series of activities such as local press release tours. We also ask everyone to actively support and jointly build a powerful country for intellectual property rights. Create a better public opinion atmosphere.

This concludes today’s press conference, thank you all.