China's first national standard for regulating patent agency services was formally implemented.

China's first national standard for regulating the services of patent agencies was officially implemented, and the national standard "Service Specification for Patent Agencies" drafted by China National Intellectual Property Administration, All-China Patent Agents Association, Jiangsu Intellectual Property Office and Jiangsu Intellectual Property Research Center was officially released and officially implemented on 20 18 1. This is the first national standard of patent agency service in China. China's first national standard for regulating patent agency services was formally implemented. A series of data released by China National Intellectual Property Administration in early October 1 7 show that the number of invention patent applications accepted in China ranks first in the world for six consecutive years, and the number of domestic invention patents exceeds110,000, with the number of invention patents per 10,000 population reaching 8.0. With the rapid development of intellectual property in China, the scale of patent agency industry has steadily expanded, and the number of patent agencies has increased rapidly. By the end of 20 16, the number of patent agencies had reached 15 1 1. With the increasing number of patent agencies, the competition in the patent agency market is fierce, and vicious competition among peers, lack of professional ethics and low quality of patent agency services are widespread. In this context, it is urgent to standardize the national standards of the patent agency service market. On October 20 1 17 10, the first national standard of patent agency service in China was issued and officially implemented on June 20 18. Focusing on the core goal of improving the quality of patent agency, Patent Agency Service Specification puts forward the requirements of agency management, business management, service requirements, service evaluation and improvement from the perspective of service quality management standardization, and strives to solve the outstanding problems in the process of patent agency service, such as patent agency management, patent agency service process and patent agency service quality. In the process of compiling the Service Specification for Patent Agencies, the drafting group expanded the application scope of the standard, comprehensively considered the needs of patent agencies of different sizes and types, extracted the characteristics of * * * *, standardized the service behavior, and made the standard content as reasonable as possible. The implementation of the Code is conducive to maintaining the order of the patent agency market. In general, the client has no ability to distinguish the quality of service, nor does he have the ability to supervise the agency service and the agent's behavior. Through the implementation of "Patent Agency Service Specification", patent agencies are evaluated by authoritative organizations trusted by the public, and the evaluation results are made public, so that clients can know the service information of relevant agencies, reduce the living space of low-quality agencies and black agents, and maintain an effective patent agency service market order. Secondly, it can promote the improvement of patent agency service quality. Implement norms, provide service standards for agencies, standardize agency service behavior, urge patent agencies to strengthen internal management, promote the establishment of internal service quality monitoring system, provide construction direction and reference standards for improving the service quality of patent agencies, and gradually improve the service quality of patent agencies. The implementation of the Code is conducive to strengthening the role of patent agency service industry in innovation and development. The first national standard for regulating the services of patent agencies in China was officially implemented, and I will answer your questions here. If you have more questions about patent agents, you can continue to pay attention to Bajie Intellectual Property or contact us by phone.