Recently, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) released the relevant data of PCT (patent cooperation agreement) patent applications from countries and enterprises around the world in 2019. Jiangnan University has 118 PCT patent applications in 2019, ranking 13th in PCT applications for global educational institutions and 5th in Chinese universities, among which, the ranking of global educational institutions has increased by 12 compared with 2018. At the same time, in the "top 100 of China's university patent transfer" jointly released by iprdaily and incopat Innovation Index Research Center, as of February 25, 2020, the number of patent transfers registered and effective by our university in the State Intellectual Property Office was 821, ranking the sixth in universities nationwide.
In recent years, our school has carried out the national innovation driven development strategy, a series of national policies on the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and strengthened the concept of serving economic and social development. Around all aspects of patent work, the school actively carried out reform and practice exploration. Starting from improving consciousness, building system, improving system, strengthening management and control, focusing on key points, and emphasizing transformation, it made a "combination fist" of patent work management innovation, highly stimulated the innovation vitality of researchers, and promoted the transformation of patents and achievements to achieve remarkable results.
We will increase publicity and education, and raise awareness of innovation, creation and protection. Some researchers in Colleges and universities do not have a strong sense of intellectual property protection, or even if they have a sense of protection, they lack the ability to identify the quality of patents, which leads to the low quality of patents and the inability of technology to be truly and effectively protected. In order to improve the awareness of intellectual property protection and the ability to apply the intellectual property system of scientific research personnel, the school has vigorously carried out intellectual property publicity and training in recent years. The management department has formulated training plans according to different training objects, and carried out multi-level training in the form of symposiums, symposiums and exchanges. In the past three years, the school has held more than 40 training and publicity sessions on various types of intellectual property and participated in the training More than 2000 scientific research and management personnel were trained. Due to the implementation of the policy, the awareness of intellectual property protection of teachers and students has been significantly enhanced, and the ability of intellectual property creation has been significantly improved. From 2017 to 2019, the University applied for more than 8400 domestic patents, including 5400 invention applications; 3431 domestic authorized patents, including 2319 invention authorizations. 311 PCT patents and 133 foreign authorized patents have been applied. As of 2019, there are 3603 effective invention patents in our university, ranking 21st in China and 4th in Jiangsu.
Strengthen the coordination within the school and improve the coordination mechanism of intellectual property management. University Intellectual Property Management covers a wide range, involving scientific research, personnel training, information services, achievement transformation and other departments, which need to form a multi department coordinated management mechanism. In 2017, through the re integration of department and institutional business, the school made it clear that the Industrial Technology Research Institute would manage the intellectual property work of the whole school in a unified way, organically linking the front-end patent management and the back-end achievements transformation, and initially realized the whole chain management of intellectual property rights for patent application planning, acquisition, maintenance, implementation and operation from the institutional mechanism. At the same time, the school has established the intellectual property management committee and patent transformation leading group of Jiangnan University, formed the intellectual property coordination mechanism in which the school leaders are responsible and all departments work together. The school's intellectual property management is organically integrated with scientific and technological innovation and achievement transformation, and the level of intellectual property management has been significantly improved. The university has been awarded "advanced collective of intellectual property work in Jiangsu Province" and "advanced collective of intellectual property work in Wuxi City" for many times.
We will accelerate institutional innovation and continue to unleash the vitality of original innovation. The school attaches great importance to stimulating the enthusiasm of scientific researchers for innovation and entrepreneurship, and strives to stimulate teachers' enthusiasm for scientific and technological innovation and achievement transformation through system innovation and policy incentives. In recent years, a series of system documents have been issued successively, such as the measures for the administration of intellectual property rights of Jiangnan University, the measures for the transformation of patent technology achievements of Jiangnan University (revised in 2020), the detailed rules for the implementation of the measures for the transformation of patent technology achievements of Jiangnan University, and the measures for the administration of patent subsidy of Jiangnan University (revised in 2017), which closely follow the main line of improving patent quality and strengthening intellectual property Right process management, improvement of incentive mechanism for income distribution of intellectual property rights, establishment of policy guidance for the purpose of transformation and application of patent achievements, greatly promoting the transformation and implementation of patents, and the comprehensive strength of school patents has been significantly enhanced. As of 2019, Jiangnan University has registered 807 patent transfers in the State Intellectual Property Office, ranking fifth in universities, 280 patent implementation licenses and seventh in universities. In 2019, Huafa qixianqin national intellectual property operation platform issued the list of top 100 universities patent strength in China, and Jiangnan University ranked 17th in the national universities patent strength and 2nd in Jiangsu Universities.
We will strengthen quality control and improve the ability to create intellectual property with high quality. Develop patent management platform to realize patent application pre-trial and patent life cycle management. The University and China Patent Information Center signed the service contract of University Patent Management cloud service platform, which better standardized the internal audit process of university patent application, realized the full life cycle management of patent application, examination, authorization, maintenance and transformation, and also facilitated the timely control of patent quality, patent layout and dynamics by the University / department, The service efficiency of patent management and the overall quality of patents have been improved; the bidding patent agency adopts centralized and unified management, establishes performance evaluation indicators and exit mechanism, and regularly evaluates the patent writing quality and satisfaction of agency services, so as to ensure the quality of patent service. In 2019, the school's patent authorization rate for invention reached more than 60% for the first time, and the amount of invention authorization broke through for the first time Thousands of patents; actively explore the cultivation mechanism of high-value patents, the school has twice been approved by Jiangsu Province "food ingredients biological manufacturing key technology high-value patent cultivation demonstration center" project and "advanced photosensitive materials high-value patent cultivation demonstration center" project, through professional management, layout a number of high-value patents and patent combinations that can support industrial development, strong competitiveness, and improve In recent three years, the school has won 2 silver awards and 4 excellent awards for Chinese patent, 1 Gold Award for Jiangsu patent, 1 excellent award, 2 gold awards for Wuxi patent and 2 excellent awards, and won 1 inventor award in Jiangsu Province.
Next, according to the requirements of opinions on promoting the transformation and application of university patent quality issued by the Ministry of education, the State Intellectual Property Office and the Ministry of science and technology, the university will adhere to the combination of intellectual property work and scientific and technological innovation, technology transfer and industrialization of scientific and technological achievements, improve the quality of university patent, strengthen the creation, application and management of high-value patents, and better develop them We should play an important role in serving the economic and social development of colleges and universities, and provide more powerful support for the construction of first-class disciplines in Colleges and universities. (article: Li Ding, Chen Xiaomei reviewed by: Liu long)