The General Office recently issued the "Special Action Plan for the Transformation and Application of Patents (2023-2025)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Action Plan"), focusing on vigorously promoting the industrialization of patents, accelerating the transformation of innovation achievements into real productivity, strengthening and optimizing the real economy, and helping to achieve high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-reliance.
The author believes that it is particularly important to strengthen and optimize the real economy, promote the transformation of innovation achievements into real productivity, and promote the industrialization of innovation achievements with patents as the core. Therefore, whether there are high-quality patent achievements for the industry and what kind of system or policy arrangements are used to promote the industrialization of high-quality patent achievements are the key. Strengthen the source supply of patent achievements
In order to improve the quality of patents and strengthen the source supply of patent achievements, the author combed the "Action Plan" and found that this mainly starts from the two aspects of "inventory" and "strict increment", that is, sorting out and revitalizing the stock of patents in universities and scientific research institutions and cultivating high-quality patents. Among them, "inventory" is the key to strengthening the source supply of patent achievements. First, it is necessary to establish a "convertible patent database", and through scientific evaluation, the inventory of patents will be screened according to whether they have transformation value and specific industrial application fields, so as to form a patent database. Second, it is necessary to establish "effective push channels", use new technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence, and match and push to enterprises according to industrial segments, so as to promote the docking of supply and demand. If the "inventory" is raised to a national perspective, relying on a unified platform, using information technology means, and matching advantageous resources such as policies, services, and capital, it will be more effective than a single university and a single locality. In order to improve the quality of newly applied patents, the Action Plan proposes to advocate the advancement of patent R&D cooperation, the implementation of pre-application evaluation, the establishment of quality-oriented patent services, etc., and retain high-quality patents with transformation prospects through "strict increment". In order to achieve the above results, the first is to propose and implement a pre-application evaluation system with industrialization prospect analysis as the core. In 2020, after the Ministry of Education, the State Intellectual Property Office, and the Ministry of Science and Technology jointly issued the "Several Opinions on Improving the Quality of Patents in Colleges and Universities and Promoting the Transformation and Application" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions"), this system has carried out useful explorations in colleges and universities, squeezed out some patent water, and retained high-quality and transferable patents. Second, it is necessary to promote the establishment of quality-oriented service index mechanisms such as patents. Patent institutions are an important source of high-quality patents, patentees play a key role in the drafting of patent application documents, and the drafting of high-quality patent application documents has certain requirements for the qualification of patent institutions and the level of practice and dedication of patentees. Third, it is necessary to advocate the advancement of patent R&D cooperation and promote more targeted R&D and transformation. Guide universities and scientific research institutions to accurately connect with market demand in scientific research activities, actively cooperate with enterprises to tackle key problems, and form more high-value patents that meet the needs of the industry. Encourage the exploration of patent open source
The Action Plan points out that it is necessary to support the development of special services for the listing of intellectual property rights of enterprises and effectively reduce the intellectual property risks in the listing process. Focusing on high-tech enterprises, specialized and special new enterprises, and technology-based enterprises, the filing of patented products is carried out as the basic basis for measuring the implementation of patent transformation. Patents are the basis for science and technology enterprises to own and master key core technologies, and they are also the core of enhancing the competitiveness and added value of enterprises' products, and an important support for enterprises to reflect their main position in scientific and technological innovation. Enterprises listed on the STAR Market are generally IP-intensive enterprises, and whether they have a number of high-quality patents and other intellectual property rights and a strategic intellectual property layout have become an important threshold for enterprises to be listed on the STAR Market. In recent years, a number of "hard tech" start-ups with university backgrounds have come to the fore. Whether the intellectual property rights of enterprises are obtained from their own research and development or transformed from joint universities, doing a good job in the "reserve" and "cutting" of intellectual property rights highlights the important value of intellectual property rights in science and technology enterprises. In recent years, the filing of patented products has paid more attention to which patents or patent portfolios provide core technical support for a patented product of an enterprise, which is an important starting point to guide enterprises to promote the transformation of high-value patents and promote the transformation of patents at the product end and the industrial side. This measure is of positive significance for cultivating and developing patent-intensive industries, promoting the application of patents in real industries, and strengthening the real economy. Therefore, the "Action Plan" proposes to encourage the exploration of new application models such as patent open source for cutting-edge technology fields such as future industries, as well as the ongoing patent open licensing system, which is beneficial to the exploration and practice of creating an innovation ecology and promoting more transformation and application of patents on the basis of respecting patent rights. Construct policies and measures for patent transformation
The Action Plan proposes to explore the implementation of an annual, type-by-type and phased overall assessment of the state-owned equity formed by the valuation of patents and other scientific and technological achievements, and no longer conduct individual assessments, which reflects the respect for the law of transformation and the law of the market. First, the state-owned shares after the patent of the university are in the position of a small shareholder, and the equity holding and management departments of the university do not occupy the absolute right to speak in the operation of the shareholding enterprise. Second, after the university patent shares, the enterprise often has to go through the business test of the application value of the results of the market and the growth stage test of large investment and low revenue in the start-up period, this stage blindly requires the state-owned equity to maintain and increase its value, some strong people are difficult, and do not fully respect the law of transformation and the law of the market, and the overall assessment, according to the year, type, and stage of the overall assessment in respect of the actual situation, to explore a new management model. The requirements of the "Action Plan" for the patent transformation policy are that, on the basis of the "Several Opinions", the policy orientation of highlighting the quality and transformation of patents will be expanded from the field of universities to all regions and relevant departments, and from the policies of title promotion, performance appraisal, job appointment, project completion, talent evaluation and scholarship evaluation involved in colleges and universities to all levels and types of project evaluation, institutional evaluation, enterprise identification, talent evaluation, professional title evaluation and other work involving patent indicators. The above-mentioned expansion makes universities no longer fight alone in the action of improving the quality of patents, forming a policy joint force of the whole society, all departments and all regions to promote the quality and transfer of patents, which reflects the significance of taking the lead in carrying out this action in the field of universities.