A sound intellectual property system is an important nutrient in the soil of scientific and technological innovation. 2021 is the first year of the 14th five year plan. Tianjin Economic Development Zone has strengthened the protection of intellectual property rights, continuously promoted the improvement of patent quality and value, created a high-quality business environment, provided more powerful guarantee for enterprise innovation, and promoted the high-quality development of enterprises. All intellectual property work has been at the forefront of Binhai New Area and the whole city, and achieved a good start of the 14th five year plan.
In 2021, Tianjin Economic Development Zone made brilliant achievements in intellectual property work. Among them, the number of invention patents authorized has achieved a blowout growth, with 1055 authorized in the whole year, an increase of 1.2 times compared with 2020. The average annual number of authorized patents in the whole city has increased from 9% in 2020 to 14.3% in 2021. By the end of 2021, the economic development zone had 4624 valid invention patents, accounting for 10.7% of the city, and the number of invention patents owned by 10000 people had reached 120.
In recent years, the economic development zone has made great efforts to promote the transformation of intellectual property work from pursuing quantity to improving quality, strengthen the application and transformation of patented technological achievements, and improve the level of high-value patents. In December 2021, the municipal intellectual property service industry cluster settled in Binhai – Beijing Centergate Technologies (Holding) Co.Ltd(000931) and put into use to provide regional innovative enterprises with full chain services such as intellectual property creation, consultation, application, rights protection, transformation and protection, create a good intellectual property protection environment, and help regional enterprises improve their social awareness of intellectual property protection and their ability of independent innovation.
In 2021, seven enterprises in the economic development zone were shortlisted for high-value patent cultivation projects in Binhai New Area, accounting for 47% of all projects; Eight projects were shortlisted for the pilot of high-value patents in Tianjin’s key industrial chain, and three projects won the first prize of Tianjin intellectual property innovation, invention and design competition, all accounting for the highest proportion in the city; The four patents of three enterprises in the Economic Development Zone won the excellence award of the 22nd China Patent Award and the silver award of China design respectively, which was the most award-winning in the past years; The number of high-value patents reached 1951. The layout of intellectual property rights in the economic development zone has gradually changed from quantity growth to quality improvement. It is committed to forming innovation ability, patent analysis ability, patent identification ability and reengineering ability, so as to provide innovation power for high-quality development in the region.
