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By ZHONG Jianli

China National Intellectual Property Administration has released a notice to upgrade and build a number of demonstration or pilot areas for the intellectual property (IP) service industry, aiming to promote high-quality development of the IP service industry and provide better support for innovation.

Those demonstration or pilot areas will be built in provincial or national industrial parks including high-tech zones and economic development zones, as well as in the district- and county-level administrative areas with industrial clusters, according to the notice.

It is proposed promoting the deep integration of IP services with industries such as advanced manufacturing and modern agriculture, in order to better serve industrial upgrading and improve the quality and efficiency of the regional economy.

IP service providers gathering in the pilot areas are encouraged to establish quality brands with a good reputation and improve their specializations to reach the international level, according to the notice.

Full-chain IP services such as IP agency, transfer, registration, appraisal, evaluation, certification and consultation should be provided in the demonstrative areas, through one-stop online and offline services, said the notice.

In addition, high-standard supervision systems for the IP service industry should be set up, while there should be a crack down on illegal services for patent and trademark applications.

Efforts should be made to attract high-end IP professionals from home and abroad, support the introduction of high-level foreign institutions to enter the demonstration and pilot areas to conduct IP-related businesses, and promote international cooperation in IP services including expanding IP service trade.