In the past three years, Guangzhou Development Zone has made outstanding achievements in patent applications, patent authorization, and PCT international patent applications. The achievements cannot be reached without the China (Guangdong) Intellectual Property Protection Center. The "Sino-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City Intellectual Property Application and Protection Comprehensive Reform Pilot Zone" expresses the diligent and determined struggle to deepen the fertile soil of the province's intellectual property business and creatively carry out all aspects of work.
In 2019, Guangzhou Development Zone launched a pilot project of intellectual property financial innovation to build an intellectual property financial service center in Guangzhou Development Zone, Huangpu District, Guangzhou. In the first half of 2019 alone, the entire district completed 46 patent pledge financing with an amount of 604 million yuan. It accounts for 38.6% of the city, ranking first in the city. This year, under the impact of the epidemic, the Guangzhou Development Zone has continued to expand the scope of intellectual property financial support, rewarding intellectual property securitization, and subsidizing enterprises that participate in the financing of intellectual property securitization products at an annual interest rate of 3% of the actual financing amount. The maximum financing subsidy period is 3 years, and the maximum subsidy is 2 million yuan per year; the issuer will be given a one-time reward based on 2% of the actual issuance amount, and the annual reward amount is up to 6 million yuan.
The unprecedented financial policy support of the Guangzhou Development Zone to the major innovation entities in the zone also puts forward higher work requirements for the Guangdong Center. In response to this gratifying scene, the Guangdong Center takes advantage of its unique advantage in the central area of Guangzhou Development Zone, and focuses on cooperating with various protection centers and quick maintenance centers to use the pre-examination management platform to promote the review and confirmation of intellectual property rights in key industries in various cities. The rapid coordinated protection work of industries linked with assistance, arbitration and mediation, and judicial convergence improves the efficiency of rapid examination, rapid determination, and rapid rights protection. With the help of this fertile soil with a strong intellectual property atmosphere in Guangzhou Development Zone, since its opening in 2019, the center’s intellectual property services have developed steadily, with a total of nearly 3,000 pre-examination patents, and the number of pre-examinations is among the highest in the country. The number of patents is rising.
The reporter learned from the Guangdong Center that since the formal launch of the pre-examination service in May 2019, as of September 2020, the center has received a total of 2,171 enterprises and institutions in the province for pre-examination filing, of which 1,487 have been filed in the new generation of information technology. 684 registered companies in the field of biological industry. The pre-examination period has been shortened from 20.6 days, 14.6 days, and 7 days in 2019 to the current average period of 4.4 days. The pre-examination period has been greatly shortened. New-generation information technology and biomedicine, as the two key industries in the development zone, are in great demand for patent pre-examination. Simplifying the pre-examination application process and shortening the pre-examination period can effectively alleviate the difficulties of innovative companies with large pre-examination requirements, thereby increasing the enthusiasm of enterprises for innovation.
It is worth mentioning that, in accordance with this year's complex epidemic situation, in order to help enterprises rescue their difficulties, the development zone has introduced a series of measures to help enterprises resume work and production, and implement the tasks of "six stability and six guarantees". Up to now, Guangzhou Development Zone has issued three intellectual property securitization products, accounting for 30% of the national total. Among them, this year, two major industries of biomedicine and new-generation information technology were issued two intellectual property securitization products, which raised 434 million yuan for 24 companies. Guangdong Center also launched the “Intellectual Property Fast Financing Loan” financial service to support enterprises with intellectual property assets to obtain pure credit loans as low as 3.15%. 145 enterprises have already issued loans with a loan amount of 995 million yuan. These business-benefit measures have helped enterprises in the region overcome the problem of capital shortage caused by the epidemic and injected new vitality into the innovative development of enterprises.
