Development of Intellectual Property Agency

After China's entry into WTO, the domestic market will be opened to the outside world, and the benefits will greatly increase the overseas application and transnational intellectual property disputes, which will increase the demand for intellectual property agents. It can be said that intellectual property agency is a new service industry that has developed rapidly with the rise of knowledge economy, the trend of world economic integration and a large number of intellectual achievements.

With the strengthening of science and technology and intellectual property protection, setting up intellectual property barriers has become a new means for enterprises or countries to restrict competitors from obtaining monopoly profits. Reflected in international trade, it has the color of trade protectionism and has become a new type of non-tariff barrier. Because this new barrier is extremely concealed, all enterprises and countries are consciously strengthening the setting of this barrier (especially developed countries and multinational companies), which will inevitably lead to a large number of lawsuits related to intellectual property disputes, and then promote the rapid development of China's intellectual property agency industry.

The Analysis Report on Market Prospect and Investment Strategic Planning of Intellectual Property Agency Industry in China in 20 13-20 17 shows that in 20 1 1 year, the number of three types of patent applications accepted in China reached16.33 million, a year-on-year increase of 33.6%. Among them, there were 526,000 applications for invention patents, a year-on-year increase of 34.5%, 585,000 applications for utility model patents and 522,000 applications for design patents; The number of three types of patents granted was * * * 96 1 10,000, up by 17.9% year-on-year, including invention patents172,000, up by 27.4% year-on-year, utility model patents 408,000, and design patents 38 1 10,000. Experts said that the rapid growth of intellectual property ownership in China shows that national policy incentives and innovation subjects have become two major thrusts.

The latest statistics show that by the end of 20 1 1, there were 2.74 million valid patents in China, up 23.6% year-on-year, including 697,000 valid invention patents, up 23.4% year-on-year, and11piece of valid utility model patents. There are 35 1 000 valid invention patents in China, accounting for 50.4% of the total. China (excluding Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) has 2.37 invention patents per 10,000 population.

It is noteworthy that in 20 1 1 year, China accepted PCT international patent applications 17473, up 35.3% year-on-year. Experts believe that the number of PCT international patent applications accepted by China has increased rapidly, ranking among the top in the world, which shows that it has become the knowledge of China enterprises to rely on independent intellectual property rights to enhance their core competitiveness in the implementation of the "going out" strategy.