China issues The Further Implementation of the National IP Strategy Action Plan (2014-2020)

Recently, the general office of State Council of China forwarded The Further Implementation of the National Intellectual Property Strategy Action Plan (2014-2020)(hereafter as the Action Plan)issued by the State Intellectual Property Office jointed with other departments. The Action Plan defined the guiding ideology, main goals and action steps of the implementation of the National Intellectual Property Strategy during the following period. For the guiding ideology, the Action Plan indicates, China should carefully plan the development path of its construction of IP power and take efforts to build IP power, for offering strong support to the building on an innovative country and a well-off society. For the main goals, the Action Plan indicates, by 2020, China will significantly increase the level of IPR creation, enhance the IPR utilization and improve the protection and management capability. 

The Action Plan defines 12 expected targets related with intellectual property rights, and in accordance with the requirements of encouraging creation, effective utilization, legal protection and scientific management, the government will focus on strengthening the utilization and protection of IPR, and actively create a favorable legal environment, market environment and cultural environment, and strive to build a IP power, and an innovative country and a well-off society. 

The Action Plan puts forward four major actions to implement intellectual property strategy. The first is to promote the IP creation and utilization. The government will promote the development of IP-intensive industries and modern agricultural services to enhance the modern service industry, and finally to support industrial restructuring and upgrading. The second is to strengthen IPR protection. The government will strengthen IPR administrative law enforcement information disclosure to strengthen IPR law enforcement in key fields and promote software legalization, then strengthen criminal IPR law enforcement and judicial protection, put forward the social prevention and mediation of IP disputes to create a favorable market environment. The third is to strengthen IPR management. The government will strengthen the scientific and technological innovation, IPR examination, implement intellectual property appraisal on major economic activities, guide enterprises to strengthen IPR management, IPR management on national defense affairs, to improve management efficiency. The fourth is to expand IPR international cooperation. The government will step up IP issues with foreign countries, and improve IP rules related with foreign trade, support domestic enterprises to go abroad, to enhance their international competitiveness. 

The Action Plan defines the construction of three major infrastructure projects. The first is IP information service project. The government will promote interconnection among various IPR basic information public service platforms, and gradually realise the sharing of IP basic information resources, and open to the public for free or at low-cost. The second is the IP survey and statistics project. The government will start IPR statistics and monitoring, and gradually establish a statistical system of IP industry, and contribute to revised accounting system of the national economy. The third is IP talent construction. The government will build national training base of intellectual property talents, and the intellectual property content should be concluded into school curriculum system, legal education and scientific literacy promotion of all people.