During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China's intellectual property sector has achieved quality improvements through steady progress and breakthroughs through innovation, with multiple core indicators reaching targets ahead of schedule, laying a solid foundation and broadening pathways for building an intellectual property powerhouse.
**Institutional Foundation Building Strengthens Innovation Barriers**
Intellectual property protection serves as the "ballast stone" of innovation. China has completed a comprehensive revision of the Patent Law and simultaneously advanced the revision of the Trademark Law, creating a "protective network" for innovation entities. Patent and trademark examination efficiency has continued to leap forward, with the internationally leading intelligent examination system fully operational. The average examination period for invention patents has been compressed to 15.5 months, while the average examination period for trademark registration remains stable at 4 months, both ranking among the fastest globally under similar systems. The social satisfaction score for intellectual property protection reached 82.36 points in 2024, achieving a qualitative leap in protection standards from institutional provisions to practical effectiveness.
**Transformation Empowerment Activates Industrial Momentum**
The vitality of intellectual property lies in transformation and application. Under the guidance of the patent transformation special action, the industrialization rate of enterprise invention patents has climbed to 53.3%, and the added value of patent-intensive industries accounts for 13.04% of GDP. Innovation achievements are moving from laboratories to production lines at unprecedented speed. In strategic emerging industries such as artificial intelligence and new energy vehicles, breakthroughs have been achieved in key core technology patents, both consolidating confidence in scientific and technological self-reliance and injecting strong momentum for the development of new quality productive forces.
**Service Network Expansion Cultivates Innovation Fertile Ground**
The National Intellectual Property Public Service Platform has been launched and operates with full-chain "one-stop online services," making services more intelligent and efficient. A convenient and accessible service network has been constructed with 483 national-level public service institutions and 175 prefecture-level comprehensive service institutions. Professional master's degree programs in intellectual property research have taken root, with talent reserves exceeding 1 million people and practicing patent attorneys surpassing 40,000. From basic support to precise empowerment, the service system and talent team together nurture the fertile soil of the innovation ecosystem.
**Open Cooperation Contributes Chinese Wisdom**
In the Global Innovation Index Report, China ranks 11th, leading among middle-income economies, and has held the top position globally for two consecutive years in the number of top 100 global technology clusters. Chinese enterprises have won the World Intellectual Property Organization Global Awards for four consecutive years, with the highest number of awards among all countries. Intellectual property cooperation relationships have been established with over 80 countries and regions, with the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) covering 84 countries, continuously expanding the "circle of friends" for international intellectual property cooperation.
Every step forward in intellectual property development responds to the pulse of high-quality development and records the solid footprints of the past five years. Looking ahead, the blueprint for building an intellectual property powerhouse is gradually unfolding, promising to be more practice-oriented, innovation-supporting, industry-prospering, and people-benefiting.
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