Key indicators have achieved leapfrog growth as the Sichuan Chengdu Intellectual Property Protection Center (hereinafter referred to as the "Center") presented a high-quality report on empowering urban development with intellectual property. In 2025, focusing on building a full-chain intellectual property protection and service system and closely aligning with corporate innovation needs, the Center made intensive efforts in three major areas: enhancing service efficiency, strengthening rights protection, and implementing precise services, leading to a significant surge in its key performance metrics.
The substantial leap in service efficiency is underpinned by a robust, standardized support system. In 2025, the Center registered a cumulative total of 1,833 enterprises for its services, extensively covering key industrial sectors such as biology and new materials; it accepted 4,589 patent pre-examination cases (a year-on-year increase of 16.95%), with 1,497 successfully granted. By continuously optimizing approval processes and enhancing precise government-enterprise coordination, the Center reduced the average grant periods for invention patents, utility model patents, and design patents to 65 days, 49 days, and 7.5 days, respectively. By the end of last year, the Center had pre-examined and facilitated the grant of nearly 5,000 patents, creating a "green channel" for the rapid transformation of innovative achievements.
In 2025, the city's valid invention patent ownership reached 135,000, the number of high-value invention patents per 10,000 people rose to 26.1, valid registered trademarks surpassed 1.05 million, and the total number of geographical indications reached 116, ranking first among sub-provincial cities. This represents a qualitative leap forward in both the stock and quality of intellectual property.
During the 2025 Spring Festival season, as the local blockbuster cultural IP "Nezha 2: The Demon Child Disturbs the Sea" was hotly screened, a swift "lightning counterattack" against online piracy was launched. On February 11, 2025, infringement leads were accurately detected through the "Intellectual Property Cloud Police Office." The Chengdu Intellectual Property Protection Center immediately coordinated with copyright and public security departments to form a special task force. Operating with high efficiency—"coordinating in 1 day, qualifying the case in 3 days, and wrapping up the operation in 6 days"—they successfully dismantled the criminal chain involving "pirated uploads, platform operation, and ad monetization." Law enforcement officers apprehended two suspects and seized 3 servers and 12 storage media containing pirated content involved in the case. This rights protection case, selected as a typical example by the Chengdu court, stands as powerful testimony to the city's strong intellectual property enforcement.
The network of comprehensive protection continues to be strengthened. In 2025, the Center established a diversified dispute resolution system, handling a cumulative total of 6,611 rights protection assistance cases and providing professional support for 270 joint law enforcement actions. Furthermore, the Center not only created a "four-in-one" protection system for the 12th World Games, receiving recognition from the event's organizing committee, but also deepened protection in specialized fields, guiding the intangible cultural heritage brand "Li Ji Le Bao" to a successful legal victory, ensuring solid protection for innovative achievements across various sectors. Simultaneously, the Center collaborated with western cities like Chongqing and Guiyang on two cross-regional case cooperations, promoting the implementation of collaborative mechanisms and continuously improving the full-chain protection network. In the Global Innovation Index rankings, Chengdu has jumped to 24th place globally, an improvement of 23 positions since 2020, making its city名片 of "strict protection, fast protection, and strong protection" increasingly prominent.
"The confirmation of data asset rights is steadily progressing, giving us a clear path to protect our core resources!" said Wang Cheng, manager of Jianshan Technology Innovation Development Center, echoing the sentiments of many tech enterprises. Through customized "one enterprise, one policy" guidance, the Center helps companies clarify the logic of data asset protection and plan their intellectual property layout strategies, assisting them in overcoming development bottlenecks. Such precise services have been rolled out across the city. In 2025, the Center deeply carried out the "Enter Ten Thousand Enterprises, Solve Problems, Optimize the Environment, Promote Development" initiative, organizing expert teams to provide "one-on-one" responses to 575 requests from park-based enterprises, successfully resolving 454 of them. Addressing common practical protection challenges faced by businesses, the Center partnered with trade secret protection bases to conduct 9 tiered and categorized training sessions, covering core personnel from 290 enterprises. It also customized practical guides such as the "Chengdu Biotech Enterprise Trade Secret Protection Guide" and the "Fifty Questions on Trade Secrets" handbook, using a "Q&A + case study" format to break down common issues, making the content immediately understandable and applicable for companies.
The intelligent service platform has accumulated nearly 8 million data points covering trademarks and patents, meeting enterprise inquiry needs. It advanced the implementation of three key patent navigation projects focused on "Aramid III Fiber Technology," "Medical Radionuclides," and "Spatial Intelligence and World Models," providing precise guidance to innovators like Zhonglan Chenguang and Nuray Medical to strengthen their IP layouts. From helping New Green Pharmaceutical increase its patent application approval rate by 40%, to providing "one-on-one" professional guidance to over 140 enterprises including Chengdu Hengtong Optical Communication; from establishing an overseas rights protection workstation in Singapore, which issued over 30 overseas risk warnings and assisted more than 10 companies like Yuanxing Rubber and Hengkun Optoelectronics in recovering economic losses exceeding 5 million RMB, to cultivating over 17,000 intellectual property professionals—Chengdu's comprehensive, multi-level empowerment services are enabling enterprises to pursue innovation more steadily and ambitiously.
In 2025, the city added 312 new high-tech enterprises, and 9 of its districts were listed in the CCID Top 100 Innovative Districts, ranking first nationally in the number of上榜 districts. Intellectual property is becoming the core code for the city's innovative vitality, injecting continuous momentum into Chengdu's goal of building a national highland for intellectual property protection and a model strong city for IP. It is understood that the Center will adhere to the strategy of "innovation-driven development, open leadership, integration of science and industry, and invigorating counties and districts." Guided by the construction of the national IP protection highland and strong city demonstration project, it aims to create a "full-category, full-chain" one-stop comprehensive service platform, polish the golden招牌 of a business environment that "responds to all needs without unnecessary interference," empower urban high-quality development through intellectual property, and compose a new chapter of Chinese modernization for Chengdu.
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