1, Practice Admission Qualification Examination
The patent agent is the 3 1 entry qualification certificate (* * *139) of professional and technical personnel in the national vocational qualification catalogue (* * * 58 items, including 35 entry items and 23 level evaluation items)!
Step 2 lower the threshold
The newly revised Patent Agency Regulations came into effect on March 20 19 1 day. The newly revised Measures for the Administration of Patent Agents was promulgated by the State Administration of Market Supervision and came into force on May 6, 2009. The management measures should be consistent with the Patent Agency Regulations, adhere to the principle of simple administration and decentralization, support innovation and entrepreneurship, and stimulate market vitality and social creativity; Adhere to the combination of release and management, strengthen supervision during and after the event, standardize market order, and protect the legitimate rights and interests of innovation subjects; Adhere to optimizing services, facilitate the people and improve service efficiency. The main amendments include improving the practice access system of patent agencies and patent agents, strengthening the supervision and self-discipline of patent agency industry, and strengthening the punishment of patent agency violations.
The newly revised Measures for the Qualification Examination of Patent Agents was promulgated by the State Administration of Market Supervision and came into force on June 65438+6, 2009. According to the new method, the patent agent qualification examination has three characteristics compared with previous years: first, the title of "patent agent" is changed to "patent agent"; Second, the form of examination organization has changed from the original paper-and-pencil examination method to the computerized examination method; The third is to lower the examination threshold and cancel the requirement that "you should master a foreign language, be familiar with patent law and related legal knowledge, and engage in scientific and technological work or legal work for more than two years".
3. National policy encouragement
The "Outline of National Intellectual Property Strategy" issued by the State Council clearly stated that by 2020, China will be built into a country with a high level of intellectual property creation, application, protection and management. Within five years, the level of independent intellectual property rights has been greatly improved, the application effect of intellectual property rights has been significantly enhanced, the protection of intellectual property rights has been significantly improved, and the awareness of intellectual property rights in the whole society has been generally improved.
The Thirteenth Five-Year Plan for the Development of Patent Agency Industry issued by China National Intellectual Property Administration pointed out that by 2020, the patent agency industry will form a talent team with moderate scale, reasonable structure and strong comprehensive ability, with reasonable distribution of industry resources, service fields and service levels meeting the needs of building an innovative country, a perfect market operation system and obvious improvement of international competitiveness, and become an important force for service innovation and development.
20 19, 1 1 In order to implement the requirements of the Notice of the State Council on Carrying out the Pilot Reform of "Separation of Licenses and Certificates" in the Pilot Free Trade Zone, China National Intellectual Property Administration issued the Implementation Plan for Carrying out the Pilot Reform of Examination, Approval and Notification of Practice Licenses of Patent Agencies in the Pilot Free Trade Zone, and decided to start from 20 19,/kloc. Piloting the reform of patent agency practice license in Shanghai, Guangdong, Tianjin, Fujian, Liaoning, Zhejiang, Henan, Hubei, Chongqing, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Hainan, Shandong, Jiangsu, Guangxi, Hebei, Yunnan, Heilongjiang and other free trade pilot zones.
4. Talent shortage is rare.
Judging from the selection mechanism of the patent agent examination, according to the relevant regulations, the patent agent qualification examination must be at least 18 years old (there is no upper limit requirement for the time being), and anyone with a college degree or above in science and engineering can sign up for the examination. Moreover, with the increase of the number of applicants every year, the difficulty of the patent agent examination is also increasing year by year, and the passing rate of the examination is also decreasing year by year. Patent agent examination may be the lowest pass rate among all kinds of professional qualifications! In recent years, the passing rate of patent agents' examinations generally does not exceed 15%, and the passing rate in 20 19 years is the lowest in history, 12.35%. With the increasing number of applicants, the passing rate of the examination has decreased year by year, which shows that the country is more demanding on the selection of outstanding talents.
Patent literally refers to exclusive rights and interests. The word "patent" comes from Latin Litteraepatentes, which means open letters or open documents. It is a certificate used by medieval monarchs to issue certain privileges, and later refers to the exclusive rights certificate signed by the British king himself. In modern times, patents are generally documents issued by government agencies or regional organizations representing several countries according to their applications. This kind of document records the contents of the invention and creation, and in a certain period of time, it has produced such a legal state that the patented invention and creation can only be implemented by others with the permission of the patentee. In China, there are three kinds of patents: inventions, utility models and designs.