MIIT Releases Implementation Plan for National Five-Year IPR Strategy

In support of the State Council's five-year action plan (2014-2020) for national IPR strategy, on August 11, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) issued its implementation framework, with a stated aim of significantly improving the creation, use, management and service capabilities of intellectual property rights in the telecommunication and information technology industries. 

MIIT listed six key work priorities in the document, including:

• Encourage research and development collaboration between enterprises, universities and scientific and research institutes to obtain competitive intellectual property for core technologies of national mega projects, including patents, software copyrights, integrated circuit layout designs and trade secrets
• Promote market-driven IP licensing, transactions, acquisition and operation in IP-intensive fields
• Strengthen IP management through establishment of an IPR profit-sharing system, IPR management mechanism in universities and scientific and research institutes, as well as IPR transformation and commercialization system.
• Enhance industry IPR protection, combat online infringement, establish a credit rating system for internet market entities, increase supervision and inspection efforts on software legalization with a target of ensuring that 98% of operating systems installed in new computers are legal by 2020, and encourage industry associations and intermediaries to release IPR self-discipline conventions.

All local industry and information technology departments will include the tasks in their 13th FYPs and work with local treasury departments to provide necessary financial support.