Shanghai

Latest statistics from SIPO showed that as the end of 2012, valid invention patents amounted to 40,309 in Shanghai, up 29.5%. The invention patent holdings of each 10,000  heads reached 17.2 (calculated on the base of 23.5 million permanent population), achieving the goal of 16 invention patents for each 10,000 heads.

In 2012, 37,139 inventions were filed in Shanghai, 11,379 of which were granted, up 15.5% and 24.2% respectively.

Guangdong

Guangdong IP Office, Guangdong Development and Reform Commission and other 7 government organs jointly released guidance on promoting IPR pledge financing in Guangdong province. According to the document, efforts will be expended to promote IPR pledge financing, and facilitate transforming of economic development.

According to the document, Guangdong will set up IPR trading platform and open fast channels for IPR pledge financing, including patent, trademark and copyright.

Shandong

Shangdong province recently introduced several regulations on intensifying works concerning IPR to boost core competitiveness of enterprises. The  paper points out that  the quantity of invention filings by enterprises and numbers of enterprise applicants should be doubled by the end of the 12th Five Year Plan period and reach 20,000 and 10,000 respectively.

The paper highlights enterprises' role of main innovators and the importance of IPR in accelerating the change of economic growth mode. According to the paper, efforts should be exerted to improve patent service network and establish a high quality of law enforcement team.

Yunnan

Kunming Iron and Steel Holding Co., Ltd, China Southern Power Grid and other 5 Yunnan-based companies have been affirmed as enterprises with IPR advantages by Yunnan IP office. The selection is based on the documents entitled Regulations on Affirming Enterprises with IPR Advantages. Up to now, 16 enterprises have been recognized as enterprises with IPR advantages.

It is known that 22 evaluation standards including the size of enterprises, industry character, invention applications and grants in the latest 3 years were strictly referred.

(China IP News)