Article 11 of the Identification Method means that an enterprise must be registered for more than one year, that is, it must be registered for more than 365 calendar days; "Current year", "previous year" and "previous year" all refer to the 1 fiscal year before the enterprise's declaration; "The last three fiscal years" refers to the three consecutive fiscal years before the enterprise's declaration (excluding the declaration year); "Within one year before the application is approved" means within 365 days before the application (including the reporting year).
(2) Intellectual property rights
1. The intellectual property rights involved in the identification of high-tech enterprises must be authorized or approved in China and within the effective protection period of China laws. The owner of intellectual property rights shall be the applicant enterprise.
2. Enterprises without intellectual property rights cannot be recognized as high-tech enterprises.
3. In the identification of high-tech enterprises, the intellectual property rights of enterprises are classified and evaluated, among which: invention patents (including national defense patents), new plant varieties, national crop varieties, national new drugs, national first-class Chinese medicine protection varieties, and layout-design exclusive rights of integrated circuits are evaluated according to Class I; Utility model patent, design patent, software copyright, etc. (excluding trademarks) shall be assessed as Class II.
4. Intellectual property rights assessed according to Class II can only be used once when applying for high-tech enterprises.
5. During the application period of high-tech enterprises and high-tech enterprises, when there are multiple rights holders of intellectual property rights, only one right holder can use it at the time of application.
6. The validity of the patent at the time of application for recognition shall be subject to the authorization certificate or authorization notice obtained by the enterprise before the application for recognition and the payment receipt can be provided.
7. Patents, trademarks and patent numbers of inventions, utility models, designs and layout designs of integrated circuits can be found on the website of China National Intellectual Property Administration;
The national defense patent shall provide the national defense patent certificate granted by China National Intellectual Property Administration;
New plant varieties can be found on the websites of the New Plant Variety Protection Office of the Ministry of Agriculture and the New Plant Variety Protection Office of the State Forestry Administration;
National crop varieties refer to crop varieties approved and published by the National Crop Variety Approval Committee of the Ministry of Agriculture;
National new drugs must provide a new drug certificate issued by the US Food and Drug Administration;
The national first-class protected varieties of traditional Chinese medicine must provide the certificate of protected varieties of traditional Chinese medicine issued by the US Food and Drug Administration;