The third general assembly of the 22nd meeting of the Standing Committee of the 10th National People’s Congress was convened on the afternoon of June 28th, 2006. In the meeting, the delegates listened to reports of the examinations on the implementation progress of the Patent Law that were carried out by the law-enforcement and examination team of the Standing Committee of National People’s Congress. The report suggested that the revision of the Patent Laws be included in next year’s legislation plans of the Standing Committee.
 
In May this year, the law-enforcement and examination team of the Standing Committee of National People’s Congress conducted an examinations on the implementation progress of the Patent Law. When delivering reporting to the delegates, Lu Yongxiang, the deputy chief of the Committee, said that in the past two decades of so (especially during the six years since the revision of the Patent Law in 2000), the implementation of the Patent Law has achieved significant results with China's technological advances and the acceleration of innovations. This has not only uplifted China’s capability of self-innovation, but has also driven the establishment of an innovative nation. In spite of this, the implementation of the Patent Laws still faces quite a number of problems that result hindrances to accommodate to the needs to “solidly strengthen China’s establishment of the Intellectual Property Rights System and to provide powerful supports to build an innovative nation”.

 

China remains weak in self-innovation and needs to improve her ability to own and utilize intellectual property rights. China is also weak in the awareness and concepts about intellectual property rights and we need further fortification of the campaign on laws concerning intellectual property rights. The implementation rate of patented technologies is relatively low and we need to increase cooperation among the industry, the academia and the research arenas to help companies become the true and genuine main body of technological innovation. China has to provide yet more protection to the legal rights of patent owners and improve the administrative and legal protection of intellectual property rights. Meanwhile, as we are in great lack of talents specializing in intellectual property rights, we need to set up more institutions and organizations for offering talent education and services. Some of the rules contained in the Patent Law have no longer been in line with the current situation or development and they require further revisions and improvements. The Team has suggested that the revision be included in next year’s legislation plans of the Standing Committee.

2006-07-03

2006-07-03