The country also vowed to make more efforts to promote the shift from pursuing quantity to improving quality in intellectual property work in the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25). Mark Snyder, Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of the US chip corporation Qualcomm, said that China has made remarkable achievements in strengthening the protection of intellectual property rights. In recent years, the National Intellectual Property Office of China reviews more than 1 million patent applications each year and issues more than 500,000 of them. This is also the highest number in the world. “The large number of intellectual property filings and cases handled by both the administrative authorities and the intellectual property courts in China is concrete evidence of society’s confidence in the effectiveness of the government’s policies. policies and reform measures taken by the Chinese government on intellectual property. These achievements are also evidence of an unprecedented accumulation of specialized knowledge and experience in the field of intellectual property.” Mark Snyder said. China is also the global leader in the number of international patent applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) system. In 2020, China is the country using this system the most, with nearly 69,000 applications. By filing an international patent application under the PCT, an applicant can claim protection for inventions in a large number of countries. Illustration Specifically, 3 Chinese companies have entered the list of top 10 patent filing companies at PCT. Huawei Technologies Co topped the list, while Chinese display maker BOE Technology Group Co and smartphone maker Oppo ranked seventh and eighth respectively. Jason Ding, head of Huawei’s IPR division, said the company has become one of the world’s largest patent holders thanks to its investment in innovation. By the end of 2020, Huawei held more than 100,000 active patents worldwide. The latest report from German patent analysis firm IPlytics shows that Huawei accounts for 15.39% of global 5G patents or a collection of patent applications that include the same technical content or similarly, as of February 1, this is the highest number in the world. Chinese telecommunications equipment maker ZTE ranked 3rd with 9.81% and Oppo ranked 9th with 3.47%. Feng Ying, Oppo’s Senior Director of Intellectual Property, said that the company will invest more resources in R&D through innovation. Such advancements will certainly impact the overall economic landscape in China. Official data shows that the number of invention patents in China reached a ratio of 15.8 per 10,000 people by the end of 2020, exceeding the target set for the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-2020). Shen Changyu, head of the National Intellectual Property Administration of China, said that China will further improve the funding and reward policies for patents, and protect and encourage patents. high value institution during the 14th Five-Year Plan period. According to data released by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in March 2021, Chinese universities have risen significantly in global rankings of patent applications. In 2020, there were 9/20 top Chinese educational institutions on the WIPO list, an increase of 6 since 2017, extending China’s lead over the US in the number of applications. patent signing. In particular, Shenzhen University, a school only 38 years old but filed the third highest number of international patents in the world in 2020, just behind the University of California and Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT). WIPO data also shows that the institution’s 252 patent applications are more than Johns Hopkins University and Harvard University combined. Chinese schools and businesses are working to file more international patents as part of the world’s second economy’s ambitions to achieve technological innovation and self-reliance in the face of stress. increasingly direct from the West.

In 2019, ST25 rice won the world’s best rice award There is a “door” to reverse the situation but … As Traffic newspaper has stated, there are 5 enterprises in the US that have registered to protect the trademark of ST25 rice – the best rice in the world in Vietnam and are waiting for approval for exclusive certification. Trademark protection is understood that Vietnamese enterprises’ ST24, ST25 rice products, if they want to sell in the US market, must go through those 5 enterprises when they have successfully registered. At that time, they will take control of the entire distribution system of the market. If Vietnamese enterprises do not want to approve or sell them to the 5 above-mentioned enterprises, they must take a different name, not the name of ST24, ST25 rice. That is the risk of Vietnamese enterprises when they are first registered for trademark and intellectual property protection by foreign enterprises. Talking to the Traffic Newspaper’s reporter, Mr. Hoang Minh Chien, Deputy Director of the Trade Promotion Department (Ministry of Industry and Trade), said that at present, the protection of products abroad of Vietnamese enterprises (enterprises) is not high. Contrary to the agility of foreign firms. “The fact that Vietnamese rice ST24 and ST25 are protected by foreign enterprises in the US is also a wake-up call for Vietnamese enterprises when they want to target export markets,” said Chien. According to Chien, currently rice ST24, ST25 has registered copyright, intellectual property in Vietnam, has been protected in the Vietnamese market, no one can win this product in the Vietnamese market. But when exporting their products to any market, Vietnamese enterprises must also register for that product in that market. Vietnamese enterprises that want to have trademark protection in the foreign market need to do very methodically according to the general international regulations, just as the legal and legal regulations are clearly regulated like registration in Vietnam. The registration can also be used by a third party which is a service if you cannot read and understand foreign documents …. Moreover, businesses can completely contact the state management agency about the brand. to be able to advise more carefully. But first, consciousness has to be derived from them. Commenting the rice brand ST24 and ST25 “has not been lost in the US” because it is in the review time, the representative of the Trade Promotion Agency said that Mr. Cua could “turn the tide” if he promptly complained to In America, when Mr. Crab’s “trump card” is “the unit that owns the rice variety, takes the contest and has the prize”. … Complicated procedures, “huge” costs An intellectual property expert said that the story of Mr. Cua can stick to the “broken car trail” of Trung Nguyen coffee when the partner has registered for Trung Nguyen Coffee brand with the authorities. The US and the World Intellectual Protection Organization (WIPO) when Trung Nguyen Company has just negotiated and has never signed a contract with a partner to bring products to this market. This is considered the first “movement” of losing the brand name of a Vietnamese enterprise when it wants to do business abroad and takes 2 years of negotiation, Trung Nguyen can regain the Trung Nguyen Coffee brand in the US and also spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on this. After that, WIPO did not accept to protect Rice Field – Trung Nguyen’s partner. This company also stepped back and accepted as a distribution agent for Trung Nguyen Coffee in the US. Trung Nguyen then strongly registered for trademark protection in more than 60 countries and territories around the world. Lessons learned about the blood and bones are still there, existing the story of rice ST24, ST25. Therefore, according to this taste, Mr. Cua can save it, but it is not easy, because it needs to be done quickly and very expensive. Not to mention, the other businesses enjoy the priority right due to the advance payment, the proving process still takes a lot of time and effort. In particular, if you do not do it early, you will lose the opportunity to “demand” much more difficult, heavier than having to spend a “huge” amount of money to buy. With the experience of many companies that went ahead, this position warned: “Do not wait for fame and then protect, but take action right after forming ideas. In the era of open economy, everything is easy, including protection. Expenses are also becoming cheaper and cheaper, Vietnamese businesses also need to change their “fear of cost” mindset so that when it is too late, they cannot be saved.