Since the beginning of this year, Ningbo intellectual property work has been promoted solid and powerful, market entities have been actively innovating, and the city’s patents show a good development trend in both quantity and quality. Ningbo Municipal Market Supervision Bureau (Intellectual Property Bureau) recently released the latest data, from January to October, the number of patents granted in Ningbo was 55,069, up 8.91% year on year, among which the number of invention patents granted was 6,503, up 55.02% year on year. By the end of October, the number of valid invention patents in The city was 37,041, up 24.0% year on year. The number of valid invention patents per 10,000 people was 39.4, up 12.3% year on year.
The innovation activity of enterprises in Our city has been continuously improved, and the demonstration and leading role of leading enterprises in protecting intellectual property rights has been highlighted. In the first three quarters, enterprise patentees were granted 4,515 invention patents, an increase of 55.4% compared with the same period last year. Among the top 10 invention patent authorization in the city, there are 7 enterprises such as Ningbo Fangtai Kitchen Co., Ltd., Ningbo Ox Electric Co., Ltd., Geely Auto Research Institute (Ningbo) Co., Ltd., etc.
In terms of patent protection, many innovative enterprises have achieved both “acceleration” and “high quality”. Ningbo Fangtai kitchenware Co., Ltd. has been a large patent authorization, as of October this year, the company has nearly 6000 authorized patents, including nearly 1300 invention patents, of which the first three quarters of this year obtained 547 invention patents, more than four times that of last year.
Oakes Group, Sainty Yu group also began to all-round force. According to the list of invention patents in the first three quarters, two subsidiaries of the two groups entered the top 10 of invention patent authorization. For example, Ningbo Oakes Electric Co., Ltd. was granted 339 invention patents in the first 9 months, with a year-on-year growth of 346.1%, ranking the third. Ningbo Sunny Vehicle Optical Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Sunny Group, focuses on the needs of the intelligent driving of modern vehicles, actively layout the market and actively innovates the technology, and became the only new enterprise entering the top 10 this year with a high growth of 59 invention patents and 1866.7%.
In addition, colleges and universities, scientific research institutions and individuals are still the “big users” of invention and creation. In the first nine months, 636,368 and 241 invention patents were granted respectively.
From the perspective of the industries involved in the invention patents, the high-quality development orientation is clear. In the first three quarters, the city’s authorized invention patents mainly focused on the three types of air regulation, optical components, systems, or instruments, and plastic molding or connection. The authorized number was 447,138 and 119 respectively, which played a significant role in supporting the innovation of the three high-end manufacturing industries such as smart home appliances, electronic information and automobile manufacturing. In addition, the innovation of new materials is increasingly active, and the number of invention patents granted in the field of new materials has increased significantly, with an increase of 128% compared with the same period last year.
It is reported that in 2020, the first intellectual property work program document “Implementation Opinions on Comprehensively Strengthening Intellectual Property Work”, jointly issued in the name of the Municipal Commission Office of Ningbo City and the Municipal Government Office, was issued. The whole-chain intellectual property protection system was gradually improved and the construction of the large protection pattern was accelerated. This year, the city issued the “14th Five-Year Plan” for the Development of Ningbo Intellectual Property, which clearly proposed that by 2025, the number of effective invention patents in Ningbo will reach 45,000, and it should be built into a strong province with strong intellectual property and a leading city with strong intellectual property.
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(Contributed by Ningbo Municipal Commission of Commerce)