Shanghai Intellectual Property Public Service Platform is one of five major comprehensive public service platforms established by the Shanghai Municipal Government in order to attract and promote innovation and business startup.

The platform provides comprehensive functions, such as patent information retrieval, analysis, assessment, management and service. It also has the online patent information analysis system of the State Intellectual Property Office.

The platform has become the construction unit of the regional patent information service center of the State Intellectual Property Office, and the base of national patent information propagation and utilization.

At present, the platform owns more than 60 million pieces of various patent abstract data, nearly 20 million pieces of appended drawings data and nearly 10 million pieces of patent full-text data.

By the end of 2013, this platform had a total of more than 13.7 million visits, and 6,548 registered users, including 2/3 users in Shanghai and 1/3 of the users from districts, cities and provinces within the Chinese mainland as well as in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao.

Enterprises have used the platform to establish 977 independent online patent databases. Until now, this platform has established workstations in some counties and districts of Shanghai, and has opened electronic platforms in Kunshan, Nantong, Yiwu as well as the Shanghai Computer Industrial Association and the Low-Voltage Apparatus Industry Association.

(Source: China Daily)