News from our newspaper (reporter Huang Linyan) Today is the 24th World Intellectual Property Day. Our city held a press conference yesterday to release the white paper titled "Development and Protection of Intellectual Property in Nanjing in 2023", introducing the innovative development and protection of intellectual property in our city. The reporter learned from the meeting that by the end of last year, the number of effective invention patents in our city had reached 139000, the number of invention patents owned by 10000 people had reached 146.8, and the number of high-value invention patents owned by 10000 people had reached 60.86. The number of effective invention patents in the digital economy industry accounted for 59.98% of the total number of effective invention patents in the same region, and many indicators maintained the first place in the province. The city's intellectual property creation, application, protection The management and service levels were comprehensively improved.
He Huaying, a member of the Party Leadership Group of the Municipal Market Supervision Administration and the full-time deputy director of the Municipal Intellectual Property Office, introduced that last year, Nanjing was successfully selected as one of the first key cities for the construction of national intellectual property protection demonstration zones, ranking first in Jiangsu and top ten in the national intellectual property administrative protection performance assessment for four consecutive years. The Municipal Intellectual Property Protection Center received 5323 patent application prequalification cases throughout the year, 4023 of which were prequalified, with an average prequalification period of 3.81 days.
Judicial protection is an indispensable part of intellectual property protection. Yao Zhijian, member of the Party Leadership Group and Vice President of the Municipal Intermediate People's Court, introduced that in 2023, Nanjing Court will conclude 6109 intellectual property cases fairly and efficiently; We increased penalties for intellectual property infringement, and awarded 37, 14, and 4 cases with compensation of more than 1 million yuan, 3 million yuan, and 10 million yuan, respectively.
Jiang Hongge, a full-time member of the Procuratorial Committee of the Municipal People's Procuratorate, introduced that the Nanjing procuratorial organ had established an intellectual property procuratorial office to actively explore a new mode of intellectual property procuratorial protection that integrates criminal, civil, administrative and public interest litigation, and to build an intellectual property procuratorial protection system that integrates "arrest, prosecution, supervision, prevention and service". Highlight the regional and industrial characteristics, set up a procuratorial protection station in China (Nanjing) Intellectual Property Protection Center, become a new member of the memorandum of cooperation on the full chain protection of intellectual property in Nanjing Jiangbei New Area (Nanjing area of the Free Trade Zone), and carry out the joint construction of "Internet+procuratorial" with the procuratorial enterprises of Alibaba Group.
"The arbitration protection of intellectual property rights can effectively solve the problem of the long period and high cost of protecting the rights of intellectual property rights holders, and better safeguard their legitimate rights and interests." Ru Yang, Deputy Secretary General of Nanjing Arbitration Commission, member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of the Municipal Arbitration Office, said that since 2021, Nanjing Arbitration Commission has handled 552 intellectual property cases, with the target amount of 690 million yuan. The number and subject matter of intellectual property arbitration cases grew steadily. The types of cases covered patents, trademarks, copyrights, franchising, technology contracts, trade secrets and other fields, initially forming a pattern of basically full coverage. The subject of the case is widely distributed, and one or both parties are more than 70% of the cases outside Nanjing. "In recent years, our city's mediation and case cancellation rate has continued to increase, with the case mediation and case cancellation rate reaching more than 50%, the average trial period of the case does not exceed 65 days, and the automatic implementation rate of the case verdict is high." Ru Yang said.
Zhu Jun, Political Commissar of the Food, Drug and Environmental Investigation Detachment of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, introduced that our city's public security department continued to strengthen its efforts to fight against intellectual property infringement crimes, took the "profession+mechanism+big data" as the carrier model, fought against professions and gangs with professionals, and safeguarded the legitimate rights and interests of enterprises. According to the white paper, the Municipal Public Security Bureau registered 159 cases of IPR infringement last year; A total of 98 cases were uncovered, involving a total amount of more than 200 million yuan.
