The Tianjin Municipal Intellectual Property Office recently convened a multi-departmental meeting to discuss high-standard implementation of national IP protection directives and assess the city's progress over the past six months. The goal is to collaboratively build Tianjin into a leading city for intellectual property protection. The meeting conveyed the latest national requirements for IP protection and exchanged information on key initiatives from the past half-year, including strengthening judicial trials, improving the IP police officer system, conducting rights protection services, and advancing diversified dispute resolution mechanisms. A dedicated seminar was held to outline next steps, focusing on continuously high-standard compliance with national deployments, optimizing the city's protection system, and forming a unified force for "combating infringement and counterfeiting while serving innovation and development." The meeting set three key requirements: first, to further improve foreign-related protection work. Given the city's growing export-oriented economy, all departments must collaborate to serve both "going out" and "bringing in" foreign-related enterprises, guiding them to strengthen their internal IP capabilities and avoid IP risks. Second, to further optimize foreign-related services. This involves continuously upgrading foreign-related IP services, shifting the focus from post-event rights protection to preemptive warnings, precise layout, and full-process护航. Third, to further optimize the rights protection network. All units should fully leverage national policy support and Tianjin's "1+3+N" overseas dispute response guidance service network, utilizing professional teams to continuously improve protection service satisfaction, enabling IP to empower enterprises to set sail successfully.
Shanghai has issued the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan for High-Quality Development of Intellectual Property," jointly published by the Shanghai Intellectual Property Office and the Shanghai Municipal Development and Reform Commission. The plan is structured into three parts: overall objectives, key tasks, and safeguard measures, systematically building a comprehensive IP development system for Shanghai to provide solid institutional guarantees and strategic support for technological innovation, industrial upgrading, and open development. Regarding objectives, the plan specifies that by 2030, Shanghai aims to become a significant international IP city, achieving new breakthroughs in deepening IP reforms, reaching new heights in protection levels, unleashing new vitality in creation and utilization, advancing to a new stage in service supply, and further optimizing the innovation and development ecosystem. The levels of IP creation, utilization, protection, management, and service will be significantly enhanced, fully supporting Shanghai's construction as a hub for technological innovation, a leader in high-end industries, a new high ground for innovative governance, a benchmark for convenience and public benefit, a gathering place for high-end talent, and a model for open cooperation. By 2035, the goal is to basically establish Shanghai as a world-leading IP center city with complete systems, robust frameworks, superior environments, and leading levels. The plan sets nine expected core indicators covering key dimensions of IP development. The key tasks revolve around the entire chain of IP creation, utilization, protection, service, talent, and ecology, outlining six core tasks with detailed supporting measures: promoting high-quality IP creation to build a technological innovation hub; promoting high-efficiency IP utilization to build a high-end industry leader; strengthening high-level IP protection to create a new high ground for innovative governance; enhancing high-standard IP services to build a benchmark for convenience and public benefit; cultivating a high-quality IP talent team to build a high-end talent gathering place; and optimizing the IP innovation and development ecosystem to build a model for open cooperation. The safeguard measures section emphasizes a comprehensive and multi-party collaborative work promotion mechanism, integrating resources and pooling efforts to ensure the implementation of the plan's initiatives and continuously improve the high-quality development level of IP in Shanghai. The plan is formulated based on Shanghai's strategic positioning, closely adhering to the core requirements of high-quality development. Next, the Shanghai Intellectual Property Office and the Shanghai Municipal Development and Reform Commission will continue to adhere to the principle of "one blueprint drawn to the end, two papers answered together," anchoring the strategic goals set in the "Shanghai Outline for Building a Strong IP City (2021-2035)," and steadily advance the implementation of various key tasks according to the timetable, task list, and construction blueprint set forth in the plan, ensuring the comprehensive upgrade of IP creation, utilization, protection, management, and service capabilities by 2030.
The "Jiangsu Province Artificial Intelligence OPC Intellectual Property Compliance Guidelines" have been jointly issued by the Jiangsu Provincial Intellectual Property Office, the Provincial Market Supervision Administration, and the Provincial Copyright Bureau. These guidelines represent a specific measure by the IP management departments to implement the "Jiangsu Province 'AI+' Action Plan" and the "Several Measures for Supporting the Innovation and Development of AI OPCs in Jiangsu Province," marking a key step in building an IP compliance system for AI OPCs in the province. OPCs, or One Person Companies, are a new type of enterprise form in the AI era, characterized by "single-person operation, multi-party collaboration, rapid iteration, and flexible innovation." Such enterprises often face issues in trademark layout, patent protection, ownership of AIGC content, trade secret protection, and training data compliance. The introduction of these guidelines provides a comprehensive IP compliance manual and risk avoidance guide for these companies. The guidelines cover full lifecycle compliance management across trademarks, patents, copyrights, trade secrets, and data IP, offering clear protection logic tailored to the characteristics and needs of AI OPCs. A dedicated section on generative AI details the full-process norms for commercial use of AIGC, clarifying that enterprises must verify the scope of commercial authorization before using AI-generated content, must prominently label externally published content as AI-generated, and must fully retain prompts, iteration logs, and other records. The guidelines also clarify the protection path for datasets formed by AI OPCs, allowing enterprises to register for free through the provincial data IP registration system, with registration certificates valid for three years and eligible for renewal. Furthermore, considering the lightweight operational characteristics of OPCs, the guidelines state that the legal representative of the enterprise is the primary responsible person for IP compliance, and there is no need to replicate the complex management systems of large and medium-sized enterprises. Instead, a simple and lightweight compliance ledger can be established to manage all types of IP daily. In the next phase, the provincial IP, market supervision, and copyright management departments will extensively carry out activities such as public lectures, compliance diagnostics, and service matchmaking to promote the implementation of the guidelines, supporting the standardized and healthy development of AI OPC innovation entities.
On July 31st, a provincial on-site promotion meeting for university IP work was held in Hangzhou, co-hosted by the Zhejiang Provincial Market Supervision Administration (Intellectual Property Office) and the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education. The meeting highlighted that universities are the main force in technological innovation and the source of IP. The focus should be on source innovation to achieve new breakthroughs in providing high-quality scientific and technological output. This involves implementing a pre-patent application evaluation system, making precise layouts around industrial needs, and cultivating a batch of high-value patent portfolios that drive high-quality industrial development. The focus should also be on transformation and application to achieve new breakthroughs in smoothing the channels for commercializing research results. This means continuously deepening the reform of empowering researchers with rights to their job-related inventions and steadily increasing the industrialization rate of effective inventions. The meeting also emphasized focusing on mechanism reform to achieve new breakthroughs in stimulating innovation vitality, using high-level IP work to drive the high-quality development of university undertakings and contribute more to the comprehensive development of an innovative Zhejiang. The meeting stressed the need to deeply understand the overall trend and reshape the strategic view of IP in universities. It called for focusing on key breakthroughs to comprehensively push university IP work to new heights, accelerating the construction of province-wide IP innovation sources, talent gathering places, and new service hubs. It also emphasized strengthening collaborative linkage to further improve the service and support mechanism for university IP work. The meeting on-site interpreted the "Opinions on Strengthening University IP Work to Promote the Construction of an Innovative Zhejiang." Representatives from Zhejiang University, Zhejiang University of Technology, China Jiliang University, and Jinhua Polytechnic shared their experiences from perspectives such as IP strategic practice, promoting deep integration of "two new" (likely referring to new technologies and new industries), and talent cultivation. Teams from Zhejiang University and Zhejiang Sci-Tech University also shared case studies of high-quality IP transformation projects.
The Hunan Provincial Market Supervision Administration (Intellectual Property Office) has recently issued a notice launching the province's second round of overseas IP risk screening operations. This initiative covers over 2,000 foreign-related enterprises across the province, focusing on companies facing overseas IP disputes or potential litigation risks, those that have already filed patents or registered trademarks abroad, and export enterprises that have filed IP rights with customs. City and prefecture market supervision administrations will form specialized task forces comprising experts in IP, law, and trade. They will conduct routine overseas IP risk screenings for enterprises using methods such as site visits, data searches, and case analysis. Based on the screening results, market supervision departments at all levels will implement precise, tiered guidance, improving and dynamically updating a three-tier risk archive system—"enterprise, industry, region"—to make risks searchable, manageable, and controllable. For high-risk enterprises identified, the Hunan Provincial Market Supervision Administration (Intellectual Property Office) will provide more targeted, upgraded services. In the next stage, the province's market supervision and IP systems will continue to improve the full-chain protection service system for foreign-related IP, offering more professional, precise, and efficient assistance to help Hunan's export-oriented enterprises navigate international markets stably and support the province's high-quality open economic development.
The "Chuxiong Yi Embroidery" Madrid International Trademark Registration has successfully passed the formal examination by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and received a "Certificate of International Trademark Registration." The trademark protection application has been simultaneously distributed to the designated member countries to initiate local substantive secondary examinations. This Madrid international registration marks the establishment of a dual intellectual property protection system for "Chuxiong Yi Embroidery," combining domestic collective trademark confirmation with international Madrid trademark protection. The thousand-year-old Yi embroidery tradition now officially holds an international legal "passport" to go global. The "Chuxiong Yi Embroidery" graphic collective trademark for classes 18 and 25 was approved by the China National Intellectual Property Administration on August 13, 2025. In October of the same year, the Chuxiong Yi Embroidery development model was selected as the province's first case study for building an IP powerhouse. Two months later, the Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture initiated the Madrid International Trademark Registration for "Chuxiong Yi Embroidery." The Madrid registration will make the "Chuxiong Yi Embroidery" collective trademark effective in the 27 EU member states, Japan, South Korea, the United States, Hong Kong SAR, and Macau SAR, providing strong support for product export and brand rights protection. Next, Chuxiong Prefecture will continue to focus on the application and management of regional public brands, promoting the integrated development of public and enterprise brands, facilitating the value transformation of Yi embroidery patterns and product IPs, and continuously polishing the golden signboard of Chuxiong Yi Embroidery.
A symposium on the high-quality development of the IP services industry was recently held in Xi'an, hosted by the Shaanxi Provincial Intellectual Property Office. The meeting aimed to gain an in-depth understanding of the current state of the industry in Shaanxi, including the difficulties and bottlenecks faced, and to broadly solicit opinions and suggestions to further optimize service supply, improve the policy system, and promote the high-quality development of the province's IP services industry. During the symposium, representatives from IP service agencies shared insights into their institutions' basic situations, primary businesses, and the difficulties and challenges encountered in the industry's development. Representatives from relevant enterprises reflected on the problems and actual needs they face in IP creation, utilization, protection, and management. The meeting emphasized that the development of Shaanxi's IP services industry is currently in a critical phase of quality improvement and upgrading. The Shaanxi Provincial Intellectual Property Office will fully support the industry's development: first, by strengthening policy supply, researching and formulating an action plan for high-quality development of the services industry, and promoting the expansion and quality enhancement of IP services; second, by accelerating the upgrade and transformation of the provincial IP big data public service platform; third, by leveraging the "demonstration and leading" role of the National IP Services Industry Agglomeration Development Demonstration Zone in Xi'an High-tech Zone; fourth, by deepening cooperation with universities to improve the talent cultivation system; fifth, by continuously strengthening industry supervision and standardizing market order; and sixth, by implementing a brand institution cultivation plan to support local agencies in becoming stronger and larger. The meeting called on various types and levels of service agencies to maintain their professional commitment, making service quality their foundation; to focus on the central work, actively integrating into the Qinchuangyuan innovation-driven platform and the "three reforms" of scientific and technological achievement transformation; to bravely shoulder social responsibility, maintaining a good industry image; and to actively offer suggestions and advice, jointly promoting the development of the industry. A regular communication and exchange mechanism should be established to effectively transform good suggestions into concrete measures for optimizing policies and improving services.
The "Patent Drives Tianshan, Industries Move Forward with Innovation" patent transformation activity for the high-quality development of Xinjiang's characteristic advantageous industrial clusters was held in Urumqi. The event facilitated the signing of 67 projects, with a patent transformation amount exceeding 20 million yuan. The event released "double five-star" patent achievements, encompassing patents from over ten characteristic advantageous industries, including oil and gas processing, new energy, and new materials. Among these were 69 local patents from Xinjiang and 6,700 high-quality patents from Beijing, gathering research results from Tsinghua University, Peking University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and universities and research institutes in Xinjiang. The activity was jointly organized by the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Market Supervision Administration (Intellectual Property Office) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps Market Supervision Administration (Intellectual Property Office). The military and local governments jointly built a bridge for patent achievement matchmaking, promoting the precise alignment of scientific research resources from universities and research institutes with enterprise production needs, and unlocking the key links in patent transformation and implementation. On-site, enterprise representatives signed cooperation agreements for multiple patent projects, covering areas such as patent implementation, patent navigation, and technology transfer. Subsequently, several enterprises released their technology needs, while university teams conducted patent technology roadshows, precisely addressing industry development pain points. This year, Xinjiang launched two online service carriers, "Code for Convenience" and "Patent Bazaar." Over 14,000 patents have been listed on these platforms, covering 13 specialized fields, allowing enterprises to select technology achievements as needed. Simultaneously, following the approach of "one location, one theme; one industry, one characteristic; quarterly focus; year-round continuity," the initiative promotes a "one session per month" regular matchmaking mechanism, using projects to drive industrial innovation momentum. Next, Xinjiang will regularize patent transformation matchmaking activities, utilize IP pledge financing policies to help tech companies convert their "intellectual property" into working capital, and continuously clear the "last mile" for patent implementation.