The State Council of PRC recently issued a circular concerning a reform plan to improve intellectual property rights management.

The plan stressed the importance of the reform of intellectual property rights management in comprehensively deepening the reform of intellectual property field and in cracking the bottleneck of intellectual property supporting innovation- driven development. According to the plan, efforts will be made to build a comprehensive management system of intellectual property rights, with an effort to better serve the public and promote innovation- driven development, aiming to enhance the capability for the IP creation, utilization, protection, administration and services, to build an intellectual property system characterized with clear right ambit, rational rational division of responsibilities, consistent responsibility and power, high-efficient operation, and legal safeguarding shall have taken shape basically.

The plan decided to set out oneyear trials of intellectual property rights management in regions jointly selected by departments. The tests will be carried out in regions that are pioneers in intellectual property rights applications and enforcement, or national innovation demonstration zones. The trials would be further extended after a joint review by SIPO and other departments that selected the test regions.

The plan ensures three main missions under the basic principle of developmental and innovative, which are to build a high- efficient operation intellectual property management system, to set a civil service system of intellectual property for the public, and to promote the comprehensive capability of intellectual property usage for supporting innovation- driven development.

"It would be remarkable in the progress of modernization if we successfully set a comprehensive management system meeting with the requirement of innovation-driven development, the goal of enforcing governmental service and international rules by intellectual property comprehensive reform." Said Wu Handong, Dean of Intellectual Property Research Center under Zhongnan University of Economics and Law. He believed that the reform would be a milestone in innovation, in legal system construction, and in building an IP powerhouse. 

(by Wang Yu)

(Source: China IP News)