Recently, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the “Outline for Building an Intellectual Property Power (2021-2035)”, which outlines my country’s ambition to accelerate the construction of an intellectual property power. blueprint. Our country has transformed from a country that introduces intellectual property to a country that creates, and the transformation of intellectual property work from pursuing quantity to improving quality has accelerated across the board. The “Outline” requires that by 2025, significant results will be achieved in building an intellectual property power; by 2035, the comprehensive competitiveness of intellectual property will be among the top in the world, and a world-class intellectual property power with Chinese characteristics will be basically established.
As China’s textile industry becomes increasingly powerful, intellectual property rights have become an important part of the industry’s technological innovation and brand building, and our country’s textiles must not Do not face the increasingly fierce competition in intellectual property protection. Developed countries and multinational companies frequently initiate textile intellectual property disputes and lawsuits, and domestic textile companies have been greatly affected. According to statistics, since my country’s accession to the WTO, Chinese companies have encountered major international patent disputes, with more than 20 lawsuits involving more than 1 billion US dollars in compensation. China’s textile industry has also taken action early. The China National Textile and Apparel Industry Federation has established an intellectual property alliance to establish an intellectual property innovation exchange platform and promote the in-depth integration of intellectual property and industry. Keqiao and Nantong, two important textile towns, have also cooperated with governments and enterprises in recent years to strengthen intellectual property protection, providing the industry with valuable intellectual property protection experience.
The first textile “Quick Dimension Center” was launched
Recently, China Shaoxing Keqiao (Textile) Intellectual Property Rapid Rights Protection Center passed the acceptance of the State Intellectual Property Office, becoming the first in the country The Textile Industry Intellectual Property Rapid Rights Protection Center was put into use.
As the core node of the entire textile industry chain in China Textile City, pattern design has always been the top priority of the creative industry in the market. In the process of building an “international textile capital” at a high level in the new era, the cultivation and protection of intellectual property rights will become increasingly important in promoting the unique advantages of “industry + market”. In April 2020, Keqiao District applied to the State Intellectual Property Office to establish the Keqiao “Quick Maintenance Center”. In October of the same year, it was officially approved by the State Intellectual Property Office.
As an important window for the State Intellectual Property Office to serve the textile industry in Keqiao and Keqiao District The market supervision bureau is a powerful starting point for carrying out intellectual property work. After Keqiao’s “Quick Maintenance Center” is put into use, it will closely focus on the positioning and needs of the textile industry in Keqiao District and play a leading role in intellectual property rights such as patents, trademarks, and copyrights. Provide full-category intellectual property protection integrating patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets, launch the digital reform of intellectual property protection in the textile industry, build textile “digital governance” scenario applications, and explore solutions to the difficulties in confirming and safeguarding intellectual property rights. The problem of low usage rights. In particular, the review and authorization of appearance design and utility model patents has been accelerated, and the authorization time has been shortened from 6 months to 7 days, achieving the “acceleration” of patent authorization in Keqiao District. At the same time, the center has also introduced a number of intellectual property public service agencies and market-oriented service agencies to provide enterprises with intellectual property pledge financing, intellectual property custody and other services, achieving multi-functional cross-level, cross-department and cross-category “one-stop” processing.
In recent years, Shaoxing Keqiao District Market Supervision Bureau has insisted on implementing intellectual property strategies as an important step in promoting high-quality economic and social development. Support and establish a regional innovation system with enterprises as the main body and market-oriented that closely integrates industry, academia and research. Last year, the country’s first Chinese textile fabric pattern copyright data center and AI comparison system were developed, and a digital “hukou” was established for the province’s textile registration pattern registration and “household registration” management. The commissioning of the country’s first “Quick Maintenance Center” in the textile industry will further open up the entire chain of intellectual property creation, application, protection, management and service, and help the high-quality development of the textile industry.
Protecting this “cloth” is protecting innovation
Protecting intellectual property rights means protecting innovation. As a major home textile town, Nantong’s core industry is fabrics and style design, which is the creation of intellectual property rights. However, driven by profit, piracy was once a “routine action” for merchants. In the 1980s and 1990s, Nantong’s home textile market was in its infancy, with only one market consisting of more than 100 individual small cloth shops. Cloth merchants who had no concept of copyright rushed to make copies, and the market was flooded with low-quality and cheap pirated fabrics. “The cost of developing a new pattern is 10,000 to 20,000 yuan, while the cost of piracy is only 3,000 to 4,000 yuan…” Talking about protectionRuyi, a leading enterprise, has formed an efficient patent management process by establishing an “Intellectual Property Affairs Department”. Ensure the quality of patents by establishing a closed-loop intellectual property management and control system. Patent protection covers the entire project life cycle from product development to later stages. The integrated development of patent layout and corporate operations involves the entire process of R&D, production, publicity, procurement, sales, and after-sales. Core technologies are first protected by patents in Europe, the United States, Japan, and South Korea.
At present, some companies engaged in intellectual property protection are also helping the textile and garment industry Upgrading the protection of intellectual property. Zhongxiruan Group, a well-known enterprise in the intellectual property industry located in Zhangjiagang, focuses on providing services in intellectual property technology, intellectual property transactions, intellectual property finance, intellectual property securitization, etc., and is becoming the world’s largest and most influential intellectual property innovation center. The group also established the Zhongxisoft Intellectual Property Technology Museum, which is divided into an intellectual property library, an intellectual property digital exhibition hall, an intellectual property museum, a good invention coffee and an intellectual property theme conference center, and collects 1,260 cultural relics of various intellectual property elements.
Li Lingshen, vice president of the China Textile and Apparel Industry Federation, emphasized that intellectual property rights have become strategic resources. As the international situation changes, the cost of learning in the industry is getting higher and higher, and the opportunities for introduction, digestion, absorption, and re-innovation are getting less and less. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the awareness of independent innovation in the entire industry and turn the protection of intellectual property rights into conscious actions. We must vigorously publicize the protection of intellectual property rights and create a culture of respect for intellectual property rights. As China’s textile industry becomes increasingly powerful, intellectual property rights have become an important part of the industry’s technological innovation. The textile industry needs to conduct research on intellectual property work and advance it pragmatically to drive high-quality development of the industry.
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