To further advance the development of an operation service system for intellectual property rights, Dongguan Administration for Market Regulation and the Management Committee of Songshan Lake recently signed a cooperation agreement with five industry intellectual property rights operation platforms from Songshan Lake. Intellectual property rights operation service platform will be built respectively for industries such as new generation of information technology, new materials, new energy and biomedicine.
Zhou Jinhui, Member of the Leading Party Members’ Group and Deputy Director of Dongguan Administration for Market Regulation, delivering a speech
Du Weihong, Member of the Party Working Committee and Member of the Management Committee of Songshan Lake, giving a speech
Zhou Jinhui, Member of the Leading Party Members’ Group and Deputy Director of Dongguan Administration for Market Regulation, Du Weihong, Member of the Party Working Committee and Member of the Management Committee of Songshan Lake, and deputies from relevant departments of Dongguan and Songshan Lake, representatives from the five major industry intellectual property rights operation platforms from Songshan Lake attended the event.
Signing ceremony of the five industry intellectual property rights operation platforms from Songshan Lake
In recent years, Songshan Lake has been approved of building national and provincial intellectual property rights pilot industrial park, demonstration industrial park, Guangdong province intellectual property rights service industry cluster development pilot and demonstration industrial park. A series of phased results have been achieved in building a comprehensive service system that combines creation, application and management of intellectual property rights.
By the end of December 2020, totally 55,672 patents had been applied in the industrial park. Among them, 29,062 patents for invention were applied. Among the applied 27,908 patents for licensing, 7,312 patents for licensing invention were applied. The industrial park ranks first in the city both in the number of invention patents per ten thousand people and the number of licensing patents per ten thousand people.
Songshan Lake converges many demonstration enterprises excelling in intellectual property rights
Zhou Jinhui expressed that Songshan Lake Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone leads the city in development of intellectual property rights with many demonstration enterprises excelling in intellectual property rights. Five of the seven intellectual property rights operation and innovation platforms built by Dongguan are located in Songshan Lake. Songshan Lake also plans to build the center for intellectual property rights operation in the Songshan Lake Science City to help the industrial park to improve intellectual property rights and inject fresh impetus into the city’s high-quality development.
Industry operation platform is an important component in building an intellectual property rights operation system. Therefore, he hoped that during platform development, the followings can be ensured: First, attach great importance and advance with coordination; second, highlight key areas and seek coordinated development; third, carry out strict management and uphold the bottom line.
According to Du Weihong, Songshan Lake attaches great importance to the work related to intellectual property rights and fully leverages the role of intellectual property rights in implementing innovation-driven development.
The latest launched “Measures of Dongguan Songshan Lake Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone for Subsidizing Intellectual Property Rights” also provides subsidy policies for intellectual property rights agencies of the industrial park in projects such as application of patent for licensing and transfer of patent results. Songshan Lake will emerge as a fertile land for the further thriving of its partners.