Notice of the Office of the State Intellectual Property Office on Strengthening Patent Navigation

Guozhi Ban Shiyun Zi [2021] No. 30

All provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps Intellectual Property Offices, Sichuan Intellectual Property Service Promotion Center, Guangdong Intellectual Property Protection Center:

Strengthening patent navigation by industrial sector is an important part of the promotion of the application of intellectual property rights, and is of great significance for improving innovation efficiency, saving innovation costs, and strengthening patent protection. In order to thoroughly implement the spirit of the important speech made by the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader at the 25th collective study of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, conscientiously implement the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, study and implement differentiated industrial and regional intellectual property policies, and promote the decision-making mechanism of industrial patent navigation based on industrial data and patent data, so as to provide effective support for scientific and technological innovation, the relevant matters related to further strengthening patent navigation work are hereby notified as follows:

I. Background and significance

In April 2013, the State Intellectual Property Office issued the "Notice on the Implementation of the Patent Navigation Pilot Project", formally proposing for the first time that patent navigation is based on the utilization of patent information resources and patent analysis, embedding patent application into industrial technological innovation, product innovation, organizational innovation and business model innovation, and guiding and supporting the industry to achieve independent, controllable and scientific development. Subsequently, the national patent navigation pilot project was fully rolled out for enterprises, industries and regions, and the concept of patent navigation was extended to intellectual property analysis and evaluation, regional layout and other work, and achieved remarkable results. In 2018, in deepening the reform of party and state institutions, patent navigation was identified as the job responsibility of the State Intellectual Property Office after the reorganization, and the pilot project of patent navigation, the pilot work of intellectual property analysis and evaluation of major economic and technological activities, and the pilot work of intellectual property regional layout were fully integrated. In June 2021, the "Patent Navigation Guidelines" (GB/T39551-2020) series of national standards for guiding and standardizing patent navigation work were officially implemented.

Carrying out patent navigation work can promote the establishment of a working mechanism that deeply integrates patent information analysis and industrial operation decision-making, highly matches patent creation and industrial innovation capabilities, effectively guarantees the competitive position of the industry through patent layout, and effectively supports the efficiency of industrial operation through the realization of patent value. This will help to promote the optimal allocation of innovation resources, enhance the creation and reserve of independent intellectual property rights in key areas, and help to achieve high-level technological self-reliance and self-reliance, ensuring the stability and security of the industrial chain and supply chain.

II. Overall requirements and main objectives

(I) Overall requirements.We will closely adhere to the needs of industrial innovation and development, adhere to the problem-oriented, goal-oriented, and result-oriented, implement the series of national standards of the Patent Navigation Guide, strengthen the patent navigation work support system, promote the application of patent navigation results and services, and improve the quality and efficiency of the development of the patent navigation industry. We will further deepen the patent navigation work, help improve the intellectual property governance capacity and governance level, and effectively support the construction of an intellectual property power.

(2) Main objectives.By 2025, the planning and design of patent navigation projects, resource protection, and application of results will be further strengthened, financial investment in patent navigation project management systems and measures will be more perfect, and a number of relatively mature patent navigation service bases will be established in various regions. A unique, standardized, and effective patent navigation service system will be established, and the important role of patent navigation industry innovation and development will be effectively played.

III. Improve the efficiency of patent navigation organizations and help make breakthroughs in key core technologies

(1) Establish a docking mechanism for patent navigation in key industries.Focusing on the implementation of local economic and social development plans, we will connect with the innovative development needs of local governments, industrial agglomeration areas, and leading enterprises, sort out the bottlenecks and key core technologies restricting industrial development, and establish and improve the patent navigation work docking mechanism between the intellectual property department and the competent departments of economy and industry.

(2) Implementing patent navigation projects for key industries.In response to local key core technology research needs, formulate patent navigation work plans, organize the implementation of key industry patent navigation projects, strengthen the analysis of industrial development direction, industrial development positioning and industrial development path, and guide market players to adjust market layout, products and other business strategies according to the analysis results, so as to achieve an effective patent layout around key core technology research.

(III) Launching expert consultation activities in key industries.Based on the industrial promotion and application of patent navigation achievements, we will rationally introduce industrial expert resources in the work links of patent navigation project demand analysis, information fusion analysis, achievement application, and performance evaluation, explore and innovate various practical and effective service forms, and provide business guidance for patent navigation in key core technology areas.

IV. Build a solid foundation for patent navigation and strengthen the supply of resources

(1) Strengthen the construction of patent navigation service bases.All regions should, in light of local conditions, rely on enterprises, colleges and universities, service institutions and other units to build or improve patent navigation service bases that are urgently needed locally, and gradually form the normalization and marketization of patent navigation services. It is necessary to guide public welfare institutions such as patent agencies, intellectual property protection centers, and intellectual property information centers. The main responsibilities are to support government departments in organizing and implementing patent navigation special project policies, supporting government departments in planning and implementing patent navigation projects, and undertaking the daily work of the patent navigation business linkage mechanism of government departments.

(2) Promote the series of national standards of the Patent Navigation Guide.To publicize and popularize the concept of patent navigation in the whole society, promote the organization and implementation methods of regional planning and industrial planning patent navigation projects, and the application methods of results to relevant government departments, and guide enterprises and institutions to apply national standards in innovative activities such as business operation, R & D activities, and talent management. Guide various entities to expand the application scenarios of patent navigation and innovate patent navigation analysis methods.

(III) Strengthen the training of patent navigation personnel.In line with the actual economic development of the region and the needs of patent navigation work, formulate a patent navigation talent training plan, organize online and offline patent navigation work training, and meet the personalized skills training needs of various subjects, so as to promote the construction of a local patent navigation talent team.

(Iv) Provide patented navigation service products.Combined with the requirements of patent navigation application scenarios, integrate data, talents and other patent navigation work resources, guide institutions with public welfare attributes, develop public welfare patent navigation tool products, and innovate the working mode to promote the improvement of patent navigation service efficiency, so as to meet the work needs of patent navigation service customization, facilitation and effectiveness.

V. Enhance the efficiency of patent navigation services and strengthen the application of project results

(1) Establish a patent navigation achievement sharing mechanism.Make full use of the patent navigation comprehensive service platform, organize the warehousing, filing and evaluation of the results of the patent navigation project in the region, regularly submit the results of the patent navigation project including analysis and research reports and application materials to the State Intellectual Property Office, and promptly push the patent navigation results information to the relevant departments of the region’s economy and industry to support innovation decision-making.

(2) Establish a patent navigation achievement release mechanism.Excavate and summarize typical cases of patent navigation work in the region, build a patent navigation results release mechanism, and issue patent navigation reports to key industrial chain-related enterprises to promote the wide use of patent navigation results.

(III) Establish a patent navigation achievement application resource docking mechanism.In response to the application needs of patent navigation results such as patent layout, high-value patent cultivation, and intellectual property operation, the docking channels of various resources such as priority review, centralized review, fast committal hearing, fast rights protection, and patent rights transfer and transformation required for the smooth application of patent navigation results will accelerate the landing and application of patent navigation results.

VI. Organizational guarantee

(1) Strengthen organizational leadership.All provincial-level intellectual property management departments should fully understand the importance of strengthening patent navigation work, focus on local economic and social development planning and industrial innovation and development needs, improve the industrial patent navigation policy mechanism, organize the implementation of patent navigation special projects, guide the construction of patent navigation service bases, and improve the patent navigation work system.

(2) Increase investment in resources.The State Intellectual Property Office will strengthen the horizontal coordination and vertical connection of policy resources with various ministries and regions, and promote the deep integration of patent navigation with economy, industry and other related work. Provincial-level intellectual property management departments should strengthen communication and coordination with relevant functional areas of business in their respective regions, strive for supporting support from relevant policies and funds, and provide resource protection for patent navigation work.

(III) Strengthen tracking services and assessments.In order to facilitate the guidance of the development of patent navigation work, the intellectual property management departments at the provincial level shall recommend a patent navigation service base with good work as a working contact point. Each contact point shall submit a work summary to the Department of Application Promotion of our bureau before the end of each year, and hold contact point meetings as needed to exchange work experience, listen to work suggestions, and provide necessary support and guidance. The intellectual property management departments at the provincial level shall submit the results of patent navigation work in their respective regions every year, regularly submit the work results of patent navigation projects, and file the relevant situation of patent navigation service base construction in a timely manner. Our bureau will regard the tasks and results of patent navigation work as an important assessment and evaluation index for the pilot demonstration work of provincial, municipal, park and other intellectual property power construction, and as a must-do task to support the construction of key cities in the construction of the national intellectual property operation service system.

VII. Relevant requirements

(1) Intellectual property management departments at the provincial level should take the construction of patent navigation service bases as an important breakthrough point for strengthening local patent navigation work, and make layout plans. Please file the first batch of local patent navigation service bases with the Department of Application Promotion of our bureau before the end of 2021, and recommend a contact point.

(2) All provincial-level intellectual property management departments shall submit their provincial patent navigation work contacts (branch level) and contact information by the end of July 2021.

Hereby inform.

Office of the State Intellectual Property Office

July 6, 2021

(Contact and Tel: Application Promotion Department, Pang Zhipeng, Ji Xiang 010-62085371 62086705 Email: pangzhipeng@cnipa.gov.cn)