Recently, China published the China Patent Awards results. This year's China Patent Awards were granted under the new amended regulations, evaluating more on patent protection, utilization and creation quality.

This year's Awards weigh patent utilization, protection and protection efforts as 35% of the whole evaluating system, while patent quality as 25%, technical advancement as 25%, social effect and development prospect as 15%. Every target level was evaluated by different work teams for impersonality and equity.
　　
Besides, this year's Awards issued more prizes than before. There were 20 golden medals and 5 design gold medals as usual, 408 patent awards of excellence, 72 more than last year, and 64 design awards of excellence, 11 more than last year.
　　
Accordingly, SIPO granted 8 best organizing awards, and 20 excellence organizing awards. Also, the winners should be rewarded by their organizations or companies.

 

(China IP News)

2014-12-10

2014-12-10