Idiom Reading | “Protecting intellectual property rights means protecting innovation”

April 26 is World Intellectual Property Day.

Intellectual property rights are the ownership of the fruits of intellectual labor, as well as the fruits of scientific and technological innovation, technology patents and copyrights.

General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized at the 25th collective study session of the Political Bureau of the 19th CPC Central Committee that innovation is the first driving force for development, and protecting intellectual property rights is protecting innovation.

Since then, the General Secretary published an important article in Qiushi magazine emphasizing the high-quality development of intellectual property protection work.

As a key driving force and important support for achieving high-quality development, innovation ranks first among China’s “five major development concepts” today. Innovation is not only the first driving force for development, but also the strategic support for building a modern economic system.

The transformation and application of intellectual property rights is an important link in innovation-driven high-quality development. As the main body of innovation, faced with rapid technological changes and fierce industry competition, enterprises increasingly need to seek breakthroughs and innovative development through the protection of intellectual property rights.

In 2023, courts across the country received more than 540,000 new intellectual property cases of various types, covering patents, trademarks, copyrights, new plant varieties, anti-unfair competition and monopoly and other intellectual property types, involving key core technological innovations, well-known domestic and foreign brands, Digital economy, seed industry and many other key areas and industries in the new era.

For example, after the wake-up word “Xiao Ai Classmate” frequently used in artificial intelligence products was maliciously registered, the People’s Court effectively regulated the behavior of maliciously registering other people’s wake-up words and abusing rights, fully protecting the brand reputation of technological innovation enterprises. . In February 2024, when Lunar New Year movies were being released in full swing, the public security organs successfully destroyed the criminal chain of pirated recordings and online sales of pirated movies in multiple theaters, and seized more than 800,000 pirated copies of film and television works such as “Hot and Furious” and “Flying Life 2”. (Collection), promptly curbed the risk of film piracy and spread, and created a good copyright protection environment.

Intellectual property rights are connected to innovation on one end and the market on the other.

On the one hand, through continuous technological innovation, companies can transform intellectual property from intangible assets into tangible assets and obtain corresponding profit returns; on the other hand, these profit returns can feed back to the company, support new technology research and development, and continuously improve the core of the company. Competitiveness.

Intellectual property rights are an important indicator of an enterprise’s innovation capabilities and are also its “core means of production.” Only by fully protecting intellectual property rights can the power of innovation be fully stimulated, and the level of innovative development and industrial competitiveness be further improved.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has placed intellectual property work in a more prominent position.

General Secretary Xi Jinping has made important instructions on intellectual property protection on many occasions, presided over meetings to review and adopt important documents such as the “Opinions on Strengthening Intellectual Property Protection”, promoted the continuous strengthening of the top-level design of China’s intellectual property protection, the continuous improvement of the legal system, and led the country’s intellectual property protection The career has entered a new era.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China,Our country has made many revisions to specialized intellectual property laws such as patent law, trademark law, copyright law, and anti-unfair competition law. It has established intellectual property courts in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou to build an all-round and three-dimensional protection of intellectual property laws. system.

Data shows that my country has become the country with the largest number of patent applications in the world. In 2023, the industrialization rate of invention patents by Chinese enterprises will reach 51.3%, maintaining growth for five consecutive years. In the “2023 Global Innovation Index Report” released by the World Intellectual Property Organization, my country has 24 of the world’s top 100 technology clusters, ranking first in the world for the first time.

Across the country, various regions are also strengthening intellectual property protection in accordance with local conditions to serve innovation and development.

In 2023, Beijing will support 205 small, medium and micro enterprises in obtaining and implementing patent transformation around the creation and application of intellectual property rights in new fields and new business formats, investing a total of 100 million yuan in in-depth implementation of special work on patent transformation.

In the same year, Zhejiang Province took the lead in the country in launching a national pilot project to cultivate and promote patent-intensive products, vigorously promoted innovation by leading enterprises and chain owners, and continuously released the creative tension that empowers high-quality development.

Deng Hongsen, Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization, believes that as part of high-quality development, innovation, green and intellectual property will become more important.

Facing the second centenary goal, more and more enterprises are moving towards “newness”. Each high-value patent effectively promotes the development of new industries and new tracks, and will surely inject surging momentum into high-quality economic development.