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Introduction
On June 27, the China National Intellectual Property Administration held a regular press conference in June. There is a lot of information in the press conference, but the focus of everyone's concern is still the "Blue Sky" action targeting the agency industry that has been carried out continuously for 7 years.
There are many contents mentioned in the press conference, and the editor summarizes the following points for everyone:
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This year, we emphasize comprehensive governance,
New measures in four aspects
1. Further purifying the market
2. Further highlight comprehensive measures
3. Further strengthen publicity and guidance
4. Further guide industry self-discipline
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The focus of this year's concentrated rectification
1Organize centralized investigation and punishment of illegal and irregular behaviors such as counterfeiting others' applications and acting as agents for abnormal patent applications;
2. Carry out centralized rectification of institutions that do not meet the conditions for license filing;
3. Centralize the cleaning up of non-standard solicitation of agency business.
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The phased progress made in the current action
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In the investigation and handling of major cases, relevant local authorities will be organized to gather information on fraudulent use of enterprise information, forgery of official seal documents, illegal fabrication of patents, and other related clues that have been obtained12 key institutions have been investigated and 4 have been registered.For some individuals suspected of forging official seals, they are being transferred to the public security organs for strict punishment.
2
In terms of rectifying abnormal patent application behavior through agency, the National Bureau has investigated and found that35 agencies with a large number of abnormal applications will undergo centralized rectification and will be subject to penalties such as suspension of business and revocation.various regions65 relevant institutions will be investigated and punished with warnings, fines, and other penalties.
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In terms of centralized cleaning of non-standard business solicitation behavior, 89 clues of improper marketing behavior such as "package authorization" and impersonation of official names discovered during daily supervision were investigated and guided by relevant departments to conduct centralized cleaning within a specified period of time for 10 platform enterprises. A patent and trademark agency business marketing prohibition and restriction lexicon was sent to promote the establishment of a normalized review mechanism and effectively fulfill platform responsibilities.
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In terms of comprehensively strengthening daily management, 30 patent agencies and branches that do not meet the establishment conditions will be organized to rectify within a specified period of time and listed in the list of abnormal business operations.
Strengthen the annual report review of patent agencies, and list 156 institutions that have not implemented the annual report system in the list of abnormal business operations.
Conduct investigations into over 50 institutions suspected of obtaining practice licenses through concealing true information and fraudulent means.
Next, the State Intellectual Property Administration will continue to strengthen comprehensive industry governance, coordinate the use of policy guidance, approval and filing, administrative penalties, daily supervision, publicity and education measures, continuously purify the industry environment, and provide high-quality service guarantees for the improvement of patent quality.
