Previously, this newspaper published the article "Huawei is white, talents are hard to find", which reported in detail the lack of intellectual property talents that Huawei recruitment is difficult to highlight. However, Zhao Guobi, a graduate of Peking University Intellectual Property Institute who works for Intellectual Property Publishing House, believes that it is not easy for graduates majoring in intellectual property to find jobs.
Hard to find talents and hard to find Bole coexist.
Recently, the reporter of China Intellectual Property News learned from the Student Office of Peking University Intellectual Property Institute that there were 30 graduates in the second degree class of intellectual property in 2005, of whom 26 were employed, with an employment rate of 93%. Compared with the employment rate of Peking University Law School graduates of 8 1% in 2005, it is indeed much higher. But it is puzzling that there is a great demand for intellectual property talents at present, but less than 50% of the students in this class are engaged in intellectual property work after graduation. A considerable number of graduates are engaged in other jobs, and some even engage in the first major. At the same time, many employers lament that it is hard to find a member, and intellectual property talents who want to understand technology, law and foreign languages cannot be recruited for a long time.
Zhang Ping, secretary-general of the Intellectual Property Research Association of China University and professor of Peking University Intellectual Property Institute, believes that the training of intellectual property talents in Chinese universities emphasizes theoretical study of intellectual property law and lacks practical training, which is difficult to meet the actual needs of society; At the same time, enterprises do not pay enough attention to intellectual property rights, and most enterprises do not set up posts or departments related to intellectual property rights, which also greatly affects the training orientation of intellectual property graduates in colleges and universities.
At present, China National Intellectual Property Administration has issued the Eleventh Five-Year Plan for intellectual property talents, pointing out that the number, structure, quality and ability of intellectual property professionals in China cannot meet the needs of economic and social development, and there is a serious shortage of high-level compound talents urgently needed for intellectual property development; During the Eleventh Five-Year Plan period, it is more urgent and necessary to strengthen the work of intellectual property talents.
Practical talents are favored.
In recent years, some enterprises suffering from intellectual property rights began to attach importance to intellectual property rights and began to introduce a considerable number of intellectual property talents. At the same time, "intellectual property power" has been besieged for a long time. The intellectual property departments of multinational companies such as Siemens, IBM, Intel and Microsoft are all hundreds of people, and Sony has more than 400 intellectual property professionals. The competition between Chinese and foreign enterprises for intellectual property talents has also begun to heat up, and the role of intellectual property talents in enterprises is becoming more and more important.
In response to the changes in employers' needs, Professor Zhang Ping of Peking University Intellectual Property Institute said: "Every year, the Institute invites experts and scholars from China National Intellectual Property Administration, courts, law firms, enterprises and intellectual property agencies to hold special lectures on patent application and writing, patent literature retrieval, enterprise intellectual property strategic planning, intellectual property hot spots and other aspects for us to meet the talent needs of employers." Wei Yanliang, assistant director of China National Intellectual Property Administration Development Research Center, believes that the cultivation of intellectual property talents in colleges and universities should be combined with enterprises. At present, Philips has signed agreements with Tsinghua University, China Renmin University and Fudan University to jointly train intellectual property professionals. This training mode meets the needs of employers, has a market and is worth learning.
Tao Xinliang, dean of the School of Intellectual Property of Shanghai University, pointed out that with the saturation of intellectual property talents in China's legislative, law enforcement, judicial, teaching and scientific research departments, the demand for intellectual property talents will mainly be concentrated in enterprises in the future, which requires graduates majoring in intellectual property not only to be familiar with relevant laws and regulations, but also to be proficient in intellectual property management and operation. Colleges and universities should attach importance to the cultivation of applied talents and practical talents of intellectual property rights, the construction of applied research and practice bases, and cultivate more applied practical talents.
Seeking a new form of intellectual property personnel training
In recent years, Peking University, People's Congress and other universities have trained a certain number of second-degree graduates of intellectual property with backgrounds in science, engineering, agriculture, medicine or economics and foreign languages, so as to meet the social demand for intellectual property compound talents. Professor Zhang Ping said that these graduates used to be very popular with the society. On the one hand, because of their complex background, on the other hand, they are cheap and good, but they are qualified for graduate work with the treatment of undergraduates. However, with the society's demand for high-quality compound talents who know law, technology and foreign languages, the second degree in intellectual property can no longer meet the needs of society.
In 2004, Peking University Law School reformed the Master of Laws training program and set up five professional training directions: financial law, real estate law, fiscal and tax law, intellectual property law and international commercial law. Among them, the intellectual property law program plans to recruit 40 people every year, aiming at cultivating senior legal professionals with good professional ability and comprehensive quality, proficient in using a foreign language and competent in all fields of intellectual property law. Among them, teacher Ma Baoxia, the head teacher of the intellectual property class, said: "This training model has achieved good results. In this year's employment, they have been favored by employers, and many students have found their favorite jobs. "
Coincidentally, Shanghai University is also piloting the "2+2+3" training mode of "Bachelor of Science and Engineering/Double Discipline of Law/Master of Intellectual Property Law". It is understood that in the autumn of 2004, Shanghai University sent 15 undergraduates to pursue graduate studies in intellectual property law, and in 2005, it sent 20 undergraduates to pursue graduate studies in intellectual property law, and continued to explore the feasibility of this training model. Tao Xinliang told reporters that this is a useful attempt to cultivate intellectual property talents and the current development trend is good.
It is understood that there are nearly 20 colleges and universities that train intellectual property talents in China. No matter Peking University, National People's Congress and Shanghai University, which have trained intellectual property talents for more than 10 years, or the newly emerging intellectual property institute or intellectual property center in recent years, they are all discussing the training mode of intellectual property talents. The cultivation of intellectual property talents has become a decisive factor to promote the development of national intellectual property rights, and it has become the sacred mission of higher education to cultivate a large number of high-quality compound intellectual property talents who adapt to economic and social development and serve national intellectual property rights.