CONSTANTLY IMPROVE AND DEVELOP INTERNATIONAL PATENT SYSTEM,PROMOTE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD

When the human society steps into a new epoch, we, in cooperation with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), hold the Sino-African Intellectual Property Forum, on which we may exchange experiences in developing intellectual property systems and discuss issues of common concern. The themes listed in the agenda not only mirror the emerging issues of the development of the international intellectual property system, but also carry significant weight to

ZTE Ranked Second Worldwide for International Patent Applications

ZTE announced on February 11 that, according to the World Intellectual Property Organization （WlPO）, it had leapt from 23rd place in 2009 to second place in 2011 in terms of the number of international patent applications submitted. This follows a significant jump in the overall number of international patent applications from China, now the world＇s fourth largest submitter of patent applications.

LET HI-TECHNOLOGY WITH PATENT RIGHT ENTER THE INTERNATIONAL MARKET

Through over a decade of painstakingeffort, the Fujian AgricultureUniversity has witnessed abreakthrough in its research and applicationof bacterioflora technology, and has obtaineda series of results at the international advancedlevel. Since 1983, under the leadership of LiZhanxi, a senior agronomist, the universityhas successively and successfully developed16 technical items, including "edible funguscultivation using bacterioflora to replace woodand grain" and "bacterioflora fermentationmethod for the cultivation of mushroom andauricularia auriculajudae". The bacteriofloratechnology has basically solved the"contradiction between fungus and forestry",that is, the contradiction between edible fungusproduction and the ecological balance inforestry. This technology has captured

Studies of layout of world machine tools industry based on patent analysis

As the foundation of an industrialized country nowadays,machine tools industry is regarded as the engine of industrial development of a country.The developed countries,such as USA,Germany and Japan,have widely deployed the technology of using the patent in order to keep their strength in various fields.This research examins the CNC machine tools industry in the world by using the patent analysis method.It first gives an overview about the world patent application in CNC machine tools industry from 1963 to 2010 and divides the development of the industry into five stages.It also lists the patent application of the world top 20 countries,where the top 5 countries are compared.The patents of the world top 10 companies of machine tools manufacturers are mapped according to the international patent classification(IPC),and the future trends of world machine tools industry are discussed.Finally conclusions and suggestions are presented.

International Patent Cooperation,Patent Prosecution Highway Agreements,and Export Product Quality

This paper investigates how international cooperation for patent examination using Patent Prosecution Highway(PPH)agreements has affected the quality of firms'exports.Taking the PPH agreements signed between China and the export destinations as a quasi-natural experiment,we established a difference-in-difference-in-differences model.We found that international cooperation for patent examination caused firms to increase export quality to PPH partners in patent-intensive industries to a greater extent.This effect was more profound among PPH partners with stronger intellectual property protection,diferentiated products and core products,and agreements along with the Patent Cooperation Treaty.We also found that PPH agreements increased the number of Chinese patent applications filed in PPH partners,patent applications by PPH partners in China,and the level of innovation,all of which constitute the major channels through which export quality to PPH partners increases.Our findings demonstrate that international patent cooperation has played an important role in promoting international trade quality.