In 2008, the Guizhou People’s Government strengthened the intellectual property work from seven aspects, in order to completely carry out the intellectual property strategy.
I. Promote implementation of Outline of the National Intellectual Property Strategy and Outline of Guizhou Provincial Intellectual Property Strategy
The 2008 Promotion Plan for Outline of Guizhou Provincial Intellectual Property Strategy was made; the evaluation system for intellectual property strategy was established and implemented; and the target responsibility system for each city, prefecture, local government (district) to implement the intellectual property strategy was implemented; Guizhou Provincial Government established cooperation and consultation mechanism with the State Intellectual Property Office and determined the work tasks; and the joint conference system for implementing the Guizhou Provincial intellectual property strategy was established.
II. Strengthen Investigation Focusing on Key field and Industry to Promote the Establishment of Intellectual Property System
The Guizhou Intellectual Property Administration continuously perfected the draft of Regulations of Guizhou on Protecting the Intellectual Property of Traditional Knowledge; The analysis and research were conducted on applicability of indication protection of agricultural and specialty products of Guizhou Province, Proposal Catalogue for Geographical Indication Protection of Agricultural and Specialty Products of Guizhou Province (draft) was proposed, and the Opinions on Strengthening the Geographical Indication Work of Agricultural and Specialty Products and Energetically Promoting the Development of Agricultural and Specialty Products Economy was drafted and submitted to the Guizhou Provincial Government for issuing and implementing; Opinions on Promoting the Intellectual Property Creation and Application in the Science and Technology Innovation was published; and Guide Opinions on Intellectual Property Work of Hi-tech Industry of Guizhou Province and Opinions on Strengthening Intellectual Property Work of the Tourism Industry were established.
III. Strengthen Intellectual Property Protection and Further Consolidate and Standardize the Market Order
Guizhou Intellectual Property Administration organized the special IPR enforcement activities such as “Thunder Storm”, “Sky Net”; the administrations for industry and commerce jointly held the special activity for Olympic symbol promotion and Olympic symbol protection; the copyright administrations carried out the “special activity on governing the illegal pre-installation of computer software”; the Customs enhanced the supervision with protecting the famous brand of Guizhou Province as the law enforcement focus; and the public security organ carried out one-year “No.2 National Wine” special activity of cracking down making and selling counterfeited national wine MOUTAI and other wine products.
IV. Thoroughly Carry out the Intellectual Property Work of Enterprises and Undertakings and Region to Improve the Ability and Level of Applying Intellectual Property System by the Market Entities
The second round of intellectual property pilot demonstration in the enterprises and undertakings of Guizhou was carried out; by fully using the guide role of government fund, key industries were energetically promoted to implement the intellectual property strategy; and Guiyang City and Zunyi City stably carried out the demonstration city building work of national intellectual property and the experimental city work of intellectual property.
V. Thoroughly Carry out the Promotion Training and Human Resource Cultivation to Improve the Intellectual Property Awareness of the Whole Society
Promotion activity for the week of “April 26th” world intellectual property day in an innovative form was carried out; Special column on Guizhou Daily was continued; the “Cultivation Project for Tens of Thousands of Human Resources” was initiated, and the Plan of Intellectual Property Team Construction of Guizhou Province 2008-2015 and Scheme for Implementing the Cultivation Project for Tens of Thousands of Human Resources of Guizhou were establish; Further, the intellectual property training work and 108 intellectual property trainings and lectures were carried out in the whole province.
VI. Strengthen IT Construction of Intellectual Property to Strengthen Public Service Function
The website of Guizhou Intellectual Property Administration was comprehensively revised; the Guizhou Intellectual Property Information Platform integrating “seven countries and two organizations” foreign and Chinese patent database, Chinese patent text database, well-known brand, famous brand, geographical indication, new plant variety, etc. was established; and the 2nd Patent Technology Exhibition Trade Week in Guizhou was organized to be developed.
VII. Fully Exert the Guide and Support Effect of Special Intellectual Property Fund to Promote the Intellectual Property Creation and Implementation of Guizhou
As to the provincial level special fund for supporting the intellectual property application, 1,345 pieces were involved with the fund amount of RMB 1,876,200, including 1,301 patents, 44 new plant varieties, and 3 geographical indications. Seven cities, prefectures and regions had established the special fund for supporting the patent application under their jurisdiction.
Throughout the whole year, remarkable achievements had been scored in IPR creation and protection in the Province.
The intellectual property creation and protection conditions of Guizhou in 2008 were as follows:
Patent: 2,943 patents were applied, with a year-on-year increase of 6.7%; 1,728 patents were granted, maintaining the same level as that of the previous year. Among the patent applications, there were 873 invention patents, maintaining the same level as that of the previous year; 1,403 utility model patents, with a year-on-year increase of 9.1%; 1,783 service inventions, with a year-on-year increase of 16.1%.
Trademark: 3,278 trademarks were applied, and 1590 were registered, with a year-on-year increase of 10%, among which there were 714 trademarks for agricultural products, realizing a year-on-year increase of 12.3%. Six China well-known trademarks were newly increased. The authentication for 2008 Famous Brand of Guizhou was carried out, wherein 103 brands obtained the title of “Famous Brand of Guizhou”.
Copyright: Totally 67 copyrights were registered in 2008, with a year-on-year increase of 76%.
Other Intellectual Properties: Totally 26 new varieties were applied for new plant variety protection, among which 8 were authorized. Dafang rhizoma gastrodiae, Dingtan pepper, Lianhuan fructus amomi and Yuping Bamboo Flutes had obtained the geographical indication certificates.
Cracking down the Criminal Activities for Infringing the Intellectual Property: The Joint Conference System for Criminal Law Enforcement Protection for Intellectual Property of White Wines of Guizhou Such as MOUTAI and Other National Wines was established, the “Intellectual Property Database for Key Contact Enterprises” and “Database for Criminal Suspects of Infringing the Intellectual Property” were established, and the Cooperation Mechanism for Police and Enterprises to Protect the Intellectual Property by the Public Security Organ of Guizhou Province (Provisional) was formulated. In addition,“No.2 National Wine” special activity was carried out, and totally 13,000 bottles of counterfeited MOUTAI wine, 10,000 bottles of infringed MOUTAI, more than 6,000 counterfeited and infringed packages including brands, and the relevant production tools were destroyed, etc.
Judicial Protection for Intellectual Property: The court systems of Guizhou totally accepted 157 IPR cases at first instance, and settled 139 cases.