1. What is the background of Issuing the Work Plan?
According to the requirements of the Notice of the General Office of China National Intellectual Property Administration on Conducting Evaluation of Pilot Demonstration for Cities and County Areas to Develop Intellectual Property Power in 2023 (CNIPA GO LCG [2023] No. 582), Jing’an District was identified as a pilot area for the State’s development of cities with intellectual property power, upon the procedures of application by the people’s governments of cities and counties (county-level cities, districts), recommendation by the intellectual property administrations of provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central people’s government), and expert review.
According to the Notice of China National Intellectual Property Administration on Determining National Pilot Demonstrative Cities and Counties to Develop Cities and Counties with Intellectual Property Power (CNIPA GCG [2024] No. 2), and the Notice of Shanghai Intellectual Property Administration on Organizing the Application for Pilot Demonstrative Urban Areas in the Development of Intellectual Property Power for the Year 2023 (SIPA P [2023] No. 31), out district formulated the Work Plan of Jing’an District to Build a Pilot Urban Area in the Development of a City with Intellectual Property Power (hereinafter referred to as the “Work Plan”), which aims to launch“whole chain”work measures to actively create intellectual property development and protection environment adaptable to first-class business environment.
2. What is the purpose of formulating the Work Plan?
The Work Plan orients to promoting high-quality development, creating high-quality life and realizing high-efficiency governance, aims to gather the advantageous resources of all parties, adheres to high-quality development as the lead, and strives to build an urban area excellent in intellectual property, and through three years of development, will make the intellectual property system of Jing’an District more perfect, its support policy for high quality more complete, its protection of intellectual property rights more strict, its intellectual property application and service upgraded to a new level, and its intellectual property innovation and development supported more strongly.
3. What is the basis for formulating the Work Plan?
The Work Plan is based on the 15-year (2021-2035) Plan of Shanghai Municipality for the Development of a City with Intellectual Property Power and the 14th Five-year Plan of Shanghai Municipality for the Protection and Application of Intellectual Property Rights (SMPG G [2021] No. 25), for the purposes of actively implementing these Plans, further promoting the development strategy of intellectual property in Jing’an District, and striving to improve the protection and application system of intellectual property rights.
4. What are the key tasks of the Work Plan?
The Work Plan includes four aspects: improving the quality of intellectual property innovation and creation, improving the building of the intellectual property operation service system, improving the effectiveness of the high-level protection of intellectual property, and building a team of high-quality talents in intellectual property, and is specifically composed of 11specific tasks.
In terms of improving the quality of intellectual property innovation and creation, it mainly includes increasing policy support and purifying the industry environment; in terms of improving the building of the intellectual property operation service system, it mainly includes advancing the reform of government services, building a public service platform for intellectual property, and strengthening financial service support for intellectual property; in terms of improving the effectiveness of the high-level protection of intellectual property, it mainly includes strengthening the development of intellectual property protection institutions, enhancing the forces of regulation, strengthening judicial protection, and improving the building of the intellectual property credit system; in terms of building a team of high-quality talents in intellectual property, it mainly includes building a professional team of administrative law enforcement, and optimizing enterprise human resources.
5. What are the main features of the Work Plan?
The Work Plan mainly focuses on the key tasks arranged in the 15-year (2021-2035) Plan of Shanghai Municipality for the Development of a City with Intellectual Property Power and the 14th Five-year Plan of Shanghai Municipality for the Protection and Application of Intellectual Property Rights, and in the light of the actual work, it puts forward specific policy measures from such aspects as institutional incentives, service supply, protection efforts, resource support, scientific evaluation and environment building. These measures include: strong capability of intellectual property protection, and continuous improvement of the “one network”of rights protection assistance; improvement of the level of intellectual property application, and promotion of the commercialization and application of intellectual property rights; full coverage of the intellectual property service system, and provision of basic public services for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises; promotion of the transformation of government services for intellectual property, and comprehensive promotion of the development of integrated “one thing” services for intellectual property.