The Opinions puts forward 4 basic principles: insisting on the strategic guidance, insisting on reform and innovation, insisting on market-orient systems, insisting on overall planning and all-round consideration.
The Opinions raises five major measures: push the structural reform of IP management system; employ rigid IP protection; promote the application of IP rights; enhance oversea planning and risk prevention and control for key industries; and improve the out-bound IP cooperation.
The Opinions demands that: authorize local government to perform IP reform, encouraging regions meeting all requirements to launch piloting reform programs on IP integrated management; introduce IP appraisal systems for major economic activities; push the reform of patent licensing systems; realizing online registration, e-application and paperless examination and approval for IP rights and speeding up the construction of a world class patent examination organizations.
The Opinions raises: impose tougher punishment against IP infringing activities; complement the advantages of administrative and judicial enforcement; recording companies and individuals that deliberately infringe IP rights into a credit reporting system so as to create a business environment of fair competition and supervision.
The Opinions confirms: carry out more study on IP protection in areas such as internet, e-commerce, big data and so on; push the improvement of related laws and regulations; formulate and improve a patent protection policy featured by public participation in innovation, contracting, supporting and funding.
The Opinions raises: enhance foreign cooperation by expending public diplomacy; enhance oversea planning and risk prevention and control for key industries and deeper Chinese industries'' integration into global industry chain, value chain and innovation chain.
The Opinions also raises: establish an innovation driving development evaluation system. Gradually include IP products into national economic accounting system; the encouragement of invention and innovation as well as IP protection will be taken into consideration in the comprehensive evaluation of government officials.
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