Peimeng · 12.7-12.11 Newsletter

The 12th China International Trademark Brand Festival opened in Nanchang

The theme of this year's China International Trademark and Brand Festival is "Discussing the latitude and longitude of trademarks, and building the future of the brand",which coincides with Jiangxi's goal of building a distinctive intellectual property province, strengthen intellectual property protection, and promote the implementation of trademark brand strategy is of great significance for building a modern economic system and promoting high-quality economic development in the new era. 

The intellectualproperty chief andassociates sentenced for false applications for patents

Over 200 false applications for patents defrauded more than 900,000 rewards, the intellectual property chief and his associates were sentenced. The chief of an intellectual property unit utilized the power he possessed. In five years, he worked with others to fabricate more than 200 patents, thereby defrauding government rewards totaling more than 900,000 yuan. 

The court heard that Guo Moumou played a major role in the joint crime and constituted the crime of corruption and bribery. He was sentenced to six years and eight months imprisonment in the first instance, and was fined 400,000 yuan. The defendants Chen Moumou, Wu Moumou, and Wu Moujia played a secondary role in the joint crime, and were sentenced to probation ranging from two to four years, recovering illegal gains and fined.

World Intellectual Property Indicators Report: Trademark and Industrial Design Filing Activity Rosein 2019; Patent Applications Marked Rare Decline

The WIPI's 2019 figures, which predate the COVID-19 pandemic, underline the long-building growth in demand for the intellectual property tools that incentivize an increasingly global and digital-focused economy, said WIPO Director General Daren Tang. "The robust use of intellectual property tools shows high levels of innovation and creativity at the end of 2019, just at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic," said Mr. Tang. "The pandemic has accelerated long-building trends by fostering the adoption of new technologies and accelerating the digitization of everyday life. Because IP is so connected to technology, innovation and digitalization, IP will become even more important to a greater number of countries in the post-COVID world."

Blue Sky Action ongoing -- first permanently stop accepting trademark agency business

Recently, CNIPA made the first penalty decision to permanently stop accepting trademark agency business after institutional reform and reorganization, and permanently stopped accepting Shanghai Xuenai Trademark Office (General Partnership) for trademark agency business.D

It was found that Shanghai Xuenai, in order to solicit trademark agency business, used the original official document format of the Trademark Office, filled in false content, and added the red seal of the “Trademark Office of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce of the People’s Republic of China” at the end of the text. Altered 126 original trademark office documents in 8 categories, including "Notice of Trademark Renewal", and "Notice of Defence of Trademark Review and Adjudication Cases," among which 93 were forged official documents and the remaining 33 were altered official documents. 100 companies and 6 individuals were deceived to handle related trademark agency services and collected fees. The social impact was extremely bad. The Intellectual Property Office of Shanghai Pudong New Area fined the agency 100,000 yuan according to law, and warned and fined some of its business personnel according to law. The main responsible person is suspected of committing a crime and is transferred to the judicial organ for criminal responsibility.o you feel like you 

Growth in AI patents as country invests in tech

Businesses look to digital methods to secure trade amid restrictions caused by pandemicChina applied for a total of 694,000 artifificial intelligence patents as of October-an increase of 56.3 percent compared with same period last year－buoyed by infrastructure construction, including 5G networks and data centers, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, a recent report said.

AI-powered technologies have played a vital role in fifighting the contagion, with continuous innovation and the application of AI patents rising in recent years, according to a report issued by the China Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team and the Electronic Intellectual Property Center under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

By the end of 2019, China outpaced the United States in the number of worldwide AI-related patent applications for the fifirst time, the report said. Chinese internet search giant Baidu was granted 2,682 AI-related patents and fifiled a total of 9,364 AI-related patent applications as of October. It ranked fifirst in AI applications for the third consecutive year, followed by Tencent (8,450), Huawei (7,381) and Inspur (7,052). 

The report showed that Baidu is the leader of both patents and patent applications in several important sub-fifields of AI. These include deep learning, natural language processing, intelligent speech, autonomous driving, knowledge graph, intelligent recommendations and big data for transportation. The patented technologies in deep learning have been utilized in PaddlePaddle, Baidu's open-source industrial-level deep-learning platform.

Its core technological strengths in autonomous driving have empowered projects such as the Apollo Go Robotaxi service, which is available in Beijing, Changsha in Hunan province and Cangzhou in Hebei province. The Beijing-based tech heavyweight said it will continue to invest in and further explore AI technologies and applications in products and vertical industries. It will also promote intelligent transformation and serve as a new engine for economic growth.

Meanwhile, Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, Beihang University and other colleges and universities have become a mainstay of AI innovation, the report said. The study noted that cloud computing, as the basic supporting technology of AI, accounts for 18.38 percent of all the AI patent applications. Computer vision, as a kind of applied technology in the fifield, takes up 17.72 percent. In addition, deep learning, autonomous driving and intelligent robots account for 14.52 percent, 12.36 percent and 9.55 percent, respectively. As of October, Chinese enterprises and research institutions have applied for 3,036 patents that involve COVID-19, covering epidemic surveillance and prevention, medical treatment and resource allocation. In the fifield of noncontact remote temperature screening, Baidu, Tsinghua University and other companies and research institutions have fifiled 244 AI-related patent applications and were granted 41 AI related patents.

The country has placed great emphasis on tech development, with AI being a key fifield. The government has laid out plans at building a 1 trillion yuan ($152.9 billion) AI core industry by 2030. It is expected to stimulate related businesses by around 10 trillion yuan.

So far, AI-enabled technologies have been applied in several sectors, such as fifinance, healthcare, transportation and education. Global consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers said AI will play a massive role in boosting the global economy. They expect AI's contribution to the global economy to leap from $2 trillion in 2018 to $15.7 trillion by 2030. "China is fast becoming a global hub for innovation, particularly in the fifield of AI," said Zhu Wei, senior managing director and chairman of consultancy Accenture China. He added that Chinese companies have demonstrated great determination to digitize their organizations amid the current complex business environment.

(Source: China Daily)