After decades of development, the tentacles of China's home appliance industry have extended to all corners of the world. As a result, intellectual property rights, including patents, have increasingly become an "inescapable barrier." On April 22, on the occasion of the 21st World Intellectual Property Day, 15 industry associations (societies) including China Patent Protection Association and China Household Electrical Appliances Association held a high-quality industry intellectual property development exchange meeting in Beijing and attended the meeting. Co-signed the "Declaration on Intellectual Property Protection." Jiang Feng, executive director of the China Household Electrical Appliances Association, said, “As an industry association, we will strengthen intellectual property protection, build an industry integrity system, and actively guide member companies in accordance with relevant national laws and the requirements of the China Household Electrical Appliances Association fair competition and industry self-discipline conventions. Carry out industry self-discipline and create a market environment that respects intellectual property rights and fair competition."

In recent years, with the increase in scientific and technological innovation, intellectual property protection has become a hot topic of concern from all walks of life. At the National Two Sessions this year, Premier Li Keqiang also emphasized in his government work report that it is necessary to "promote open cooperation in science and technology and strengthen intellectual property protection." It can be seen that the status of intellectual property protection work in the central work of the party and the country has risen to an unprecedented height, and it is becoming an important strategic and basic work to promote the high-quality development of my country's economy.

"In recent years, the State Intellectual Property Office has conscientiously implemented the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s series of instructions on intellectual property work. It has also implemented the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, focusing on the new situation and new requirements, continuously improving policies and comprehensively improving intellectual property rights. Create quality, use efficiency, protection efficiency, management level and service capabilities", said Lei Xiaoyun, director of the Intellectual Property Application Promotion Department of the State Intellectual Property Office at the meeting. From the data point of view, as of the end of 2020, the number of domestic invention patents per 10,000 population (excluding Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) has reached 15.8, exceeding the goal of the national "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan". At the same time, during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, the social competence of national intellectual property protection increased from 72 to 80, and the amount of intellectual property pledge financing reached 709.5 billion yuan; the number of operations of patent transfer, licensing, pledge and other operations nationwide was 1.275 million times , Which is 2.4 times that during the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period. In addition, my country's PCT international patent applications ranked first in the world in 2019, and the added value of patent-intensive industries reached 11.5 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7%.

Focus on the home appliance industry. With the continuous deepening of the country’s reform and opening-up policy, after more than 40 years of development, China’s home appliance industry has grown from small to large, from weak to strong, and has realized the transformation from early technology introduction, imitation and follow-up to independent innovation. During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, China's home appliance industry is actively transforming towards innovation-driven. Enterprises attach great importance to scientific and technological innovation. The overall technological innovation capability of the industry has steadily improved, innovation results are emerging, and the number of patents has also increased significantly. According to incomplete statistics, in 2019, the number of Chinese patents approved and published by 35 core home appliance companies reached 80,000, of which 47,000 were invention patents. The number of invention patents was three times that of 2015. In the past 2020, according to the data of Tianyancha App, the number of new patents of my country's home appliance enterprises was nearly 350,000, a record high in 11 years. Among them, the number of invention patents accounted for the largest proportion, accounting for 44.29%. It can be said that the increasing proportion of numerous patents, especially invention patents, has witnessed the rise of China's home appliance industry.

 "Patent rights are the most important part of the intellectual property management of home appliance companies." In Jiang Feng's view, the number and quality of patents are a concrete manifestation of the innovation capabilities and core competitiveness of home appliance companies. The rapid increase in the number of patents has provided strong support for the transformation and upgrading of the home appliance industry, and has also effectively improved the market competitiveness of home appliance companies.

2021 is the first year of the "14th Five-Year Plan". According to the goal plan of the "14th Five-Year" Technology Development Guide for China's Household Appliances Industry issued by the China Household Electrical Appliances Association, by the end of the "14th Five-Year Plan", that is, by 2025, China's household electrical Establish and improve the home appliance technology research and development innovation system and capabilities that meet the needs of the global market and home appliance technology development; strengthen digital capabilities to support global R&D and operations; continue to innovate and iterate intelligent and scenario-based solutions to play a global leading role; in The global market achieves product structure upgrade and brand enhancement through differentiated innovation; deeply participates in international standardization work, and achieves breakthroughs in the right to speak in international standards in the field of key home appliances. In addition, the technology research and development work of the home appliance industry must be combined with life scenarios, and continuous innovation and disruptive innovation should be used to make technological breakthroughs to change human life styles.

To achieve this goal, Jiang Feng believes, “We must take technological self-reliance and self-reliance as a strategic support for the development of the industry, strengthen our central position in the technological innovation of global home appliances, and invest in R&D to reach the world’s advanced level. We have a group of world-class technological innovations. Innovation leading enterprises and talents. At the same time, we must strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights, create a fair market environment, effectively stimulate the innovation vitality of enterprises, and protect the innovation enthusiasm of enterprises." As a home appliance industry association, Jiang Feng emphasized that China Household Electrical Appliances Association will strengthen intellectual property protection in accordance with relevant national laws and the requirements of the China Household Electrical Appliances Association fair competition and industry self-discipline conventions, strengthen intellectual property protection, build industry integrity systems, and actively guide member companies to carry out industry self-discipline and create Respect for intellectual property rights and a fair competitive market environment. "We believe that with the joint efforts of the Chinese government, industry, and society as a whole, China's intellectual property protection work will surely reach a new level and escort my country to fully realize its innovation-driven development strategy during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period."

 "Enterprises are the mainstay of technological innovation, a strong enterprise will lead to a strong country, and a strong industry will lead to a country prospering." Meng Fengchao, president of the China Patent Protection Association, also emphasized that to build an innovative country, a group of companies with global competitiveness and influence must be built. The purpose of the China Patent Protection Association and national industry associations (societies) related to key fields and important industries in signing and issuing the "Intellectual Property Protection Declaration" is to give full play to the self-discipline and service functions of social organizations, and discuss the knowledge of social organizations to serve innovative subjects. Paths and measures for high-quality development of property rights. "Let us join hands together, respect intellectual property protection, technological innovation, and make positive contributions to stimulating the innovation vitality of the entire society and promoting the construction of a new development pattern."

Attached: "Declaration on Intellectual Property Protection"

The "14th Five-Year Plan" period is the first five years of starting a new journey of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way and marching towards the second centenary goal. Innovation is the first driving force for development, and protecting intellectual property rights means protecting innovation. In order to comprehensively strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights, promote the construction of a modern economic system, stimulate the innovation vitality of the whole society, and work together to build a new development pattern, we solemnly declare:

1. Establish an industry self-discipline mechanism. Strengthen the self-discipline management of industrial intellectual property rights, guide enterprises to abide by intellectual property laws and regulations, respect intellectual property rights of others, improve internal intellectual property management systems, and enhance the level of creation, use, protection and management of enterprise intellectual property rights.

2. build a mechanism for resource sharing, exchange and cooperation. Strengthen inter-industry exchanges and cooperation and information sharing, jointly study major issues of intellectual property protection, jointly provide professional services for corporate intellectual property rights protection, continue to strengthen industry intellectual property protection publicity and education, and continuously improve corporate intellectual property protection awareness and capabilities.

3. build a diversified service docking mechanism. Strengthen the integration and complementation of resource advantages between industries, assist enterprises in efficiently resolving intellectual property disputes, guide enterprises to cultivate high-value core patents, make reasonable planning and layout, carry out intellectual property operations, promote the realization of intellectual property values, and help open up the creation and application of intellectual property rights , Protect, manage, and serve the entire chain, and promote the independent and orderly flow and efficient allocation of innovative elements.

4. build a system of honesty and credit. Jointly build a system of good faith in intellectual property rights, strengthen guidance and education for companies that infringe on the intellectual property rights of others, and strive to create a good environment for strict protection of intellectual property rights.

Those who do are always come, those who walk always come. We promise to use practical actions, respect intellectual property rights, advocate independent innovation, consciously abide by the law, so that all technological achievements are effectively protected, all sources of wisdom are fully flowed, and the new development concept is implemented for the new stage of development, building a new development pattern, and promoting high Inject strong momentum into quality development.