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Recently, the State Intellectual Property Office released the key points of work in 2022. It mentioned that special rectification of the problem of "using trial for personal gain and trial for collusion" should be completed on time, and "full coverage" and "look back" of internal inspections of the party group should be achieved. Promote the reform of the utility model system. Continue to strictly regulate patent and trademark application behaviors, severely crack down on abnormal applications, innovate investigation methods, improve the accuracy of discovering and cracking down on abnormal applications, and strictly prevent the adverse effects caused by the spillover of abnormal applications. Strengthen the management of trademark hoarding, balance public interests, and strengthen usage obligations. Explore the comprehensive implementation of patent electronic certificates.

The overall thinking of the State Intellectual Property Office's work in 2022 is: adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fully implement the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the 19th Plenary Sessions and the spirit of the Central Economic Work Conference, and enhance the "Four Consciousnesses" ", strengthen the "four self-confidences", achieve "two safeguards", carry forward the great spirit of party founding, base on the new development stage, implement new development concepts, and promote the construction of a new development pattern to implement the "Outline for Building a Powerful Country on Intellectual Property Rights (2021-2035)" Year)" and the "14th Five-Year Plan for National Intellectual Property Protection and Utilization Plan" as the overall starting point, adhere to political guidance and serve the overall situation, adhere to the word "stability" as the top priority, strive for progress in stability, adhere to implementation as the key, and quality as the priority. In accordance with the relevant arrangements of the National Market Supervision Work Conference and the National Intellectual Property Office Directors’ Meeting, comprehensively improve the creation quality, application efficiency, protection effect, management capabilities and service level of intellectual property rights, strengthen international cooperation in intellectual property protection with greater efforts, and solidly promote intellectual property rights We will develop our business with high quality and strive to create a new situation in building a strong country with intellectual property rights.

1. Adhere to political guidance and continuously strengthen party building and the construction of party style and clean government. Earnestly carry out special rotating training to study the spirit of the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee, consolidate and expand the results of party history study and education, improve the political consciousness of practicing the "two safeguards" and defend the "two establishments", and constantly consolidate the efforts of party members and cadres in the new era. The ideological and political foundation for starting a new journey. We will conscientiously do a good job in selecting representatives to the 20th National Congress of the Party. After the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is held, it is necessary to promptly organize in-depth study of the spirit of the conference to ensure that the entire system deeply understands and resolutely implements the party's line, principles, and policies. It is necessary to strengthen the party group's analysis and judgment of major issues and forward-looking deployment, highlight the word "stability" as the top priority, seek progress while maintaining stability, stabilize ideas, stabilize teams, and stabilize business. It is necessary to strengthen party building in agencies, strengthen classified guidance, strengthen assessment and evaluation, carry out comprehensive and strict party management assessment and evaluation, and improve the long-term mechanism for party members to strive for excellence. We must support and cooperate with the work of the discipline inspection and supervision team stationed at the State Administration for Market Regulation and consciously accept supervision. Strengthen supervision of the “top leaders” and leadership teams of departments and units. It is necessary to consolidate and deepen the results of the "Year of Style Construction" activities, carry out the "Year of Implementation" activities, persevere in correcting the "four styles", further streamline meetings and improve meeting style and writing style. It is necessary to complete the special rectification of the problem of "using trial for personal gain and trial for collusion" on time, and achieve "full coverage" and "look back" of internal inspections of the party group. It is necessary to give full play to the role of mass organization and united front as a bridge and link, and create an enterprising cultural atmosphere of the agency.

2. Earnestly implement the central government’s deployment and comprehensively promote the construction of a strong country in intellectual property rights. Coordinate and promote the implementation of the "Outline for Building a Powerful Country on Intellectual Property (2021-2035)" and the "National Intellectual Property Protection and Utilization Plan for the 14th Five-Year Plan", formulate and issue task division plans, annual promotion plans and local work points, and guide local governments Formulate supporting policies to promote the implementation of a number of major projects, and establish a "four-in-one" working mechanism of strategic planning guidance, plan promotion and implementation, budget fund guarantee, and statistical monitoring and evaluation. Issue and implement key sub-project plans. Formulate annual work guidelines for high-quality development of intellectual property rights. Coordinate the implementation of the "Outline for Building a Powerful Nation on Intellectual Property (2021-2035)" and the "14th Five-Year Plan for National Intellectual Property Protection and Utilization Plan", and conduct statistical monitoring of the number of high-value invention patents per 10,000 people. Cooperate with the comprehensive performance evaluation of high-quality national development. Deepen cooperation and consultation between bureaus and provinces, and promote pilot demonstrations in building an intellectual property power. We will do a good job in preparing and disclosing the list of bureau powers and responsibilities, standardize the operation of powers, and better perform their duties.

3. Strictly protect intellectual property rights and optimize the innovation environment and business environment. Formulate and implement relevant promotion plans for the "Opinions on Strengthening the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights". Promote the revision of the Trademark Law and the legislation on geographical indications, formulate a first draft of suggestions for revision of the Trademark Law and Implementing Regulations, and propose the basic framework and main contents of unified legislation on geographical indications. Promote the completion of the revision of the "Patent Law Implementing Rules" and the "Patent Examination Guidelines". Promote the promulgation of the "Regulations on the Supervision and Management of Trademark Agents" and revise the "Registration and Management Measures for Collective Trademarks and Certification Trademarks". Accelerate the research and establishment of data intellectual property protection rules. Promote the reform of the utility model system. Carry out the construction of national intellectual property protection demonstration zones with high standards, and deepen the pilot work of standardizing administrative adjudication of patent infringement disputes. Provide guidance on administrative enforcement of patents and trademarks, intensify administrative adjudication of patent infringement disputes, and strengthen professional and technical support for administrative protection of intellectual property rights. Promote cross-department and cross-regional collaborative protection. Build high-quality intellectual property protection centers and rapid rights protection centers. Vigorously cultivate mediation organizations and arbitration institutions. Promulgate regulations for the protection of intellectual property rights in commodity trading markets and regulations for rights protection assistance. Carry out identification and punishment of untrustworthy behavior in the field of intellectual property in accordance with laws and regulations. We will do a good job in protecting the intellectual property rights of the Olympic symbols for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympics. Create a new batch of national geographical indication product protection demonstration zones. Strengthen the review of external transfers of intellectual property rights related to national security.

4. Build a first-class patent and trademark examination institution and comprehensively win the battle to improve the quality and efficiency of examination. Resolutely complete the five-year goals and tasks set by the State Council to review, improve quality and increase efficiency. Improve the patent and trademark examination management system oriented to national needs and user satisfaction, and explore and implement differentiated examination policies. Further promote innovation in the review work mechanism and model, and improve the review mechanism for invention patents in the field of traditional Chinese medicine. Completed the intelligent upgrade and transformation of the patent examination system and put it into operation. Each patent examination department must coordinate and manage the quality assurance and business guidance of examination work in the same field. Implement the high-quality development opinions of the Beijing-foreign Patent Examination Collaboration Center and further optimize the patent and trademark examination collaboration mechanism. Make a good connection with the work related to design review after joining the Hague Agreement on the International Registration of Industrial Designs (hereinafter referred to as the "Hague Agreement"). Strengthen ideological risk management and control throughout the entire process of patent and trademark review. Strictly review the identification of products protected by geographical indications and the registration review of geographical indication certification trademarks and collective trademarks. Continue to strictly regulate patent and trademark application behaviors, severely crack down on abnormal applications, innovate investigation methods, improve the accuracy of discovering and cracking down on abnormal applications, and strictly prevent the adverse effects caused by the spillover of abnormal applications. Strengthen the management of trademark hoarding, balance public interests, and strengthen usage obligations. Explore the comprehensive implementation of patent electronic certificates.

5. Improve the market-oriented operation mechanism and promote the transformation and application of intellectual property rights. Expand the coverage of the special plan for patent conversion, continue to carry out the reform of empowering professional scientific and technological achievements, and activate the transfer and conversion of intellectual property rights. Improve the patent transfer registration system and revise and publish the filing methods for patent implementation licensing contracts. Explore the establishment of a statistical release mechanism for intellectual property transaction prices. Implement the patent open licensing system in an orderly manner. We will carry out pilot and demonstration work on intellectual property rights for enterprises, universities, and scientific research institutes by classification and classification, deepen the implementation of the intellectual property strategy promotion project for small and medium-sized enterprises, and vigorously support the development of "specialized, sophisticated, special and innovative" small and medium-sized enterprises. Create an upgraded version of the intellectual property operation service system. Carry out in-depth intellectual property pledge financing activities to benefit enterprises in the park. Improve the work system to support key core technology research. Start building a national patent navigation service base. Strengthen the construction of trademark and brand guidance stations and promote the creation of industrial clusters and regional brands. Carry out in-depth geographical indication actions to help rural revitalization. Continue to do a good job in monitoring and publishing statistics on patent-intensive industries. Explore and carry out patent-intensive product registration work. Expand the pilot work on integrating the international innovation management standard system and intellectual property rights.

6. Optimize the intellectual property service system and improve service capabilities. Cooperate with China’s business environment assessment and assessment of intellectual property indicators. Explore and promote the notification and commitment system for intellectual property business processing, and carry out spot checks during and after the process. Promote the application of the list of intellectual property public service items and promote the integration of a number of intellectual property public service items into the national government service platform. Expand the coverage of prefecture-level public service agencies. Expand the functions of the World Intellectual Property Organization Technology and Innovation Support Center (TISC), the National Intellectual Property Information Service Center of Universities, and the National Intellectual Property Information Public Service Network. Accelerate the construction of intellectual property protection information platforms. Further expand the scope of openness of basic intellectual property data, optimize system service functions, and support the construction of a world-class intellectual property database. Deeply promote the special "blue sky" rectification action in the agency industry and strengthen the governance of platform agencies. Implement intellectual property agency credit evaluation management and strengthen supervision of abnormal operations and serious illegal and untrustworthy behaviors. Issue opinions on promoting high-quality development of the intellectual property service industry and deepen reform and innovation in intellectual property service industry cluster areas. Strengthen surveys and statistics on the intellectual property service industry and build a national intellectual property service export base.

7. Coordinate international cooperation and competition and deeply participate in the global governance of intellectual property rights. Accelerate the completion of my country's accession to the "Hague Agreement" and do a good job in business promotion. Actively participate in the formulation of international rules and standards for new fields and new business formats under the framework of the World Intellectual Property Organization. Promote cooperation with the World Intellectual Property Organization to organize international seminars on genetic resources, traditional knowledge and folklore. Continue to participate in negotiations on intellectual property exemptions for COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutic drugs. Orderly implement the intellectual property-related content of China and the United States and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), and closely cooperate with the Ministry of Commerce to participate in the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) trade policy review , foreign negotiations and treaty consultations on economic and trade-related intellectual property rights such as free trade agreements. Strengthen guidance and coordination for local participation in international cooperation on intellectual property rights. Deepen intellectual property cooperation along the Belt and Road Initiative. We will successfully organize the meeting of directors of BRICS intellectual property offices and deeply participate in the cooperation between the five offices of China, the United States, Europe, Japan and South Korea. Promote the next phase of implementation of the China-EU and China-France geographical indication agreements, and advance cooperation on geographical indications with Thailand and other countries. Deepen intellectual property exchanges with ASEAN, Africa and Latin America. Strengthen the investigation and response to the intellectual property claims of domestic and foreign-funded enterprises and promote balanced protection at home and abroad. Improve the foreign-related intellectual property risk prevention and control system, and optimize the network layout of overseas intellectual property dispute response guidance centers.

8. Strengthen the construction of cadres and talent teams and comprehensive service guarantees to support the construction of a strong country with intellectual property rights. Improve the pattern of intellectual property publicity work, accelerate media integration, build a communication matrix, and improve publicity effects. Strengthen routine news releases and increase policy interpretation. Organize and hold large-scale events such as World Intellectual Property Day and National Intellectual Property Publicity Week, strengthen overseas intellectual property promotion, and tell the story of China’s intellectual property to the outside world. Do a good job in commending advanced collectives and individuals in the national intellectual property system. Promote the demonstration and establishment of intellectual property professional degrees. Support the construction of intellectual property colleges and research institutes in universities. Continue to carry out rotation training for intellectual property administrative personnel and improve the professional level of cadres and employees throughout the system. Strengthen the cultivation of international talents. Vigorously develop high-end intellectual property think tanks and give full play to the consulting role of experts and scholars. Strengthen the overall management of the cadres and talents of the Beijing-foreign Patent Examination Collaboration Center, and establish a qualification system for examiners of the Patent Examination Collaboration Center. Strengthen government services and comprehensive support capabilities. Strengthen the overall management of overall informatization construction and the overall design of network security. Strengthen the protection of literature and data resources. We will do a solid job in regular prevention and control of the COVID-19 epidemic to ensure safety.

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