Since the start of 2026, the Baotou Municipal Market Supervision Bureau in Inner Mongolia has anchored its efforts to the main task of optimizing the legal business environment, rolling out a combined strategy of "strict protection, agent oversight, geographical indication strengthening, industry promotion, and collaborative synergy" to continuously improve the business environment in the field of intellectual property protection.
Strict protection: Enforcement takes action, environment improves
Daily supervision and enforcement of intellectual property protection have been intensified, with special enforcement campaigns launched in emerging fields and e-commerce, cracking down hard on patent and trademark infringement. Across the city, 35 trademark and patent cases were investigated and handled; 3 administrative adjudication cases for patent infringement disputes were processed; and 1 case was selected as one of the nation's top ten typical cases of intellectual property administrative protection 鈥?a first for Inner Mongolia. The Municipal Intellectual Property Protection Center was recognized as a pilot construction project for standardized intellectual property dispute mediation in the autonomous region.
Agent oversight: Cracking down on disorder, building credit profiles
Credit rating evaluations for trademark agencies were carried out, along with the "Year of Rectification and Standardization" campaign for intellectual property agencies and a "look-back" on self-inspection and rectification by trademark agencies, concentrating efforts on correcting illegal and non-compliant agency practices. Four leads on disrupting trademark agency market order through improper means were verified and handled; credit rating evaluations for all 38 trademark agencies in the city were completed and publicly announced; and in coordination with the State Administration for Market Regulation's "Operation 616," 3 leads on violations by patent applicants and agencies were verified, with 1 case investigated and handled.
Geographical indication strengthening: Guyang Astragalus goes national
Guyang County's "Guyang Astragalus" was successfully established as a "National Geographical Indication Protection Demonstration Zone," marking Baotou's entry into the nation's advanced ranks in geographical indication protection. Damao Grassland Mutton and Damao Potato were recognized as regional geographical indication product local standard construction projects; enterprises were organized to participate in events such as the China National Intellectual Property Administration's geographical indication product exhibition and Inner Mongolia's geographical indication product selection and broadcast, promoting production-sales matching.
Industry promotion: One enterprise, one policy, accelerating the "Baozheng Chain"
A protection directory of key innovative and creative enterprises was established, with the top 100 patent-holding enterprises in the city included in the first batch, achieving precise "one enterprise, one policy" services. On-site visits were made to 105 enterprises across banners, counties, and districts; key enterprises in the crystalline silicon and rare earth industries 鈥?including Shuangliang Silicon Materials, Hefa Rare Earth, and Zhongtian Hongyuan 鈥?were helped to join the "Baozheng Chain" platform; the "Baozheng Chain" has cumulatively served 1,182 enterprises with a total of 485 evidence deposits, up 20.2% and 16.9% year-on-year respectively; an Inner Mongolia intellectual property protection social satisfaction survey showed that Baotou ranks in the top tier of the region for intellectual property protection social satisfaction; an Inner Mongolia autonomous region business environment monitoring report for league cities showed that Baotou's four key monitoring indicators for "intellectual property protection" are the best in Inner Mongolia; 2 cases were selected as Inner Mongolia business environment innovation cases, and 1 was selected as a typical experience case for Baotou's optimization of the legal business environment.
Collaborative synergy: First in the region, cross-domain coordination
Together with the Municipal Supply and Marketing Cooperative, Baotou became the first in the region to take action against the improper use of relevant official symbols; it was the first to jointly formulate with courts the "Guidelines for Judicial and Administrative Collaborative Protection of Geographical Indication Products"; it worked with the Municipal Procuratorate to formulate and implement the "Cooperation Mechanism for Strengthening the Interface Between Administrative Enforcement and Criminal Justice"; it worked with procuratorates, public security, and market supervision departments in Hohhot and Baotou to issue the "Directory of Rights Holders in Intellectual Property Cases in Hohhot and Baotou"; and it hosted the Inner Mongolia sub-venue of the national "April 26" Intellectual Property Publicity Week, showcasing Baotou's intellectual property innovation and exploration achievements.
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