Opening a New Journey of Building a Powerful Intellectual Property Country -- Experts Interpret the Outline of Building a Powerful Intellectual Property Country (2021-2035)

"This is a major top-level design made by the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core for the development of intellectual property in the next 15 years. It is a grand blueprint for building a powerful intellectual property country in the new era. It is a major milestone in the history of my country's intellectual property development." The person in charge of the State Intellectual Property Office said the "Outline for Building a Powerful Country with Intellectual Property Rights (2021-2035)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Outline") recently issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council.
"This is the second long-term plan formulated by my country to coordinate the promotion of intellectual property in the new development stage after the implementation of the" National Intellectual Property Strategy Outline "promulgated in 2008." Li Shunde, a researcher at the Institute of Law of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told reporters that standing at a new historical starting point, the "Outline" and the "Outline of the National Intellectual Property Strategy" have formed a situation of continuous advancement and stubbornness.
Xiao Yudan, a researcher at the Institute of Science and Technology Strategy Consulting of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who has been engaged in intellectual property-related research for a long time, studied the "Outline" one by one. In his view, the "Outline" released a strong expectation that our country has consistently promoted intellectual property as a national strategy.
The role of intellectual property rights is more prominent
"The implementation cycle of the National Intellectual Property Strategy Outline is from 2008 to 2020." Xiao Youdan said that the goals set at that time have been basically achieved. "How to advance the intellectual property industry and whether it will continue the previous development strategy are issues of great concern at home and abroad."
At the same time, entering a new stage of development, promoting high-quality development is an inevitable requirement for maintaining sustained and healthy economic development, and the role of intellectual property rights as a strategic resource for national development and a core element of international competitiveness has become more prominent.
"In November 2020, when presiding over the 25th collective study of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that intellectual property protection work is related to the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, to high-quality development, to the happiness of people's lives, to the overall situation of the country's opening up to the outside world, and to national security." Xiao Youdan said that for this reason, the "Outline" emphasizes the need to give full play to the important role of the intellectual property system in the socialist modernization drive with a broader perspective, a higher position, and more specific measures.
The outline is more like a construction drawing.
"My biggest feeling is that the" Outline "is very overall, permeable, and overall." Xiao Youdan said, "The operability is very strong, more like a construction drawing."
The outline deploys six key tasks: "building an intellectual property system oriented to socialist modernization", "building an intellectual property protection system that supports a world-class business environment", "building an intellectual property market operation mechanism that encourages innovation and development", "building a public service system for the convenience of the people", "building a humanistic and social environment that promotes the high-quality development of intellectual property" and "deeply participating in global intellectual property governance.
"I think the core task is to build an intellectual property system oriented to socialist modernization." Zhao Lijie, director of the China Intellectual Property Research Association and director of the Intellectual Property Center of Beijing Yinghe Law Firm, analyzed that the intellectual property system is the basis for the scientific operation of the intellectual property governance mechanism. Only when the intellectual property system is complete and meets the needs of scientific and technological progress and economic and social development, it is possible to truly realize the construction of a powerful intellectual property country.
"Four of the tasks emphasize the construction of systems and systems, rather than how to do patents, trademarks, copyrights, etc., not only do not limit intellectual property rights to the field of science and technology, but also emphasize the construction of a public service system, a humanistic and social environment, and depth. Participate in global intellectual property governance and other aspects." Xiao Yudan believes that this shows that in entering the new stage of development and giving full play to the basic guarantee role of intellectual property rights in stimulating innovation, we must open up the whole chain of intellectual property creation, application, protection, management and service, and promote the smooth and stable industrial chain and supply chain with intellectual property chain, and smooth the domestic circulation.
The person in charge of the State Intellectual Property Office emphasized that taking intellectual property as the "standard configuration" of international trade, coordinating international cooperation and competition in the field of intellectual property, developing a higher-level open economy, and making better use of both domestic and international markets and two kinds of resources, Is conducive to better achieving the goal of mutual promotion of domestic and international double cycles.
Strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights in new fields and new formats with greater efforts
Strengthening the protection of intellectual property rights is the basis for the development of intellectual property rights. According to the outline, by 2025, the protection of intellectual property rights will be more stringent, and social satisfaction will reach and maintain a high level; by 2035, the intellectual property system will be complete, and the intellectual property cultural consciousness of the whole society will be basically formed.
It is worth mentioning that the "Outline" points out the direction for the protection of intellectual property rights in new fields and new business formats, and proposes to "accelerate the legislation of intellectual property rights in new fields such as big data, artificial intelligence, and genetic technology", and "establish and improve new technologies, New industries, new formats, and new models of intellectual property protection rules" "Research and build data intellectual property protection rules" and other requirements.
In fact, this is also the focus of China's intellectual property circles in the past two years. "New fields and new business formats are changing the content of intellectual property protection, such as the intellectual property protection of algorithms. At the same time, new fields and new business formats have higher and higher demand for intellectual property systems and laws, and the development of new technologies is more dependent on knowledge. A new legal mechanism with property rights as the core." Xiao Youdan said.
Zhao Lijie also said that new business formats and new technologies have brought many challenges to the traditional intellectual property system. Only by accelerating the reform of the relevant intellectual property system and giving new businesses and new technologies scientific and reasonable intellectual property protection can we better promote the economy and society. development.
"It is suggested that in the process of formulating and improving the follow-up intellectual property system, the relevant departments should pay more attention to new business type and new technologies, and combine the practice of relevant innovation subjects to formulate a scientific and reasonable intellectual property system." Zhao Lijie said.
"Indicators are important, but I think that in the process of building a powerful country with intellectual property rights, we should not pursue indicators too much, but should strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights, so that intellectual property rights can become the biggest driving force to stimulate innovation vitality and improve China's economic competitiveness." Li Shunde said.

Source: Science and Technology Daily