Shandong IP Promotion Regulations (Draft) publicized

Encouraging IPR creation and use

The draft forwarded that, the people's government at or above county level should establish and ameliorate encouraging mechanism, comprehensively use policies concerning finance, investment and governmental purchase, industry, energy and environmental protection to guide and uphold the market main body to create and use IPRs. Local governments should support the industrialization of excellent independent IPR projects by means of free imbursement, interest discount, fund subsidy, subsidy for social insurance fees and entrepreneurship risk investment. For the government purchase using financial funds, the purchase should give priority to products with independent intellectual property rights in the same conditions. The financial entities should give more credit support to independent IPR projects according to relevant regulations.

Tax deduction on technology transfer

Based on the draft, universities and colleges should cultivate students in creation ability and innovation awareness, and for the inventors and designers of patent rights, computer software copyrights, the exclusive rights of integrate circuit design and rights of new variety of plants, universities should give priority to them in recruitment or give scores or take it as the condition when appraising bursary for campus students. Encourage enterprises, scientific research institutions and universities to develop new technologies, new products and new arts and crafts. Enterprises and public institutions as well as other organizations can be exempted from tax or given tax deduction for their technology transfer of patents, new variety of plants, computer software, layout designs of integrated circuits and technology secrets.

Timely solving IP disputes

The IP managerial departments should deploy officials to deal with IP disputes occurring at exhibitions. The people's governments at or above county level should push IPR safeguarding and aid work, determine IPR safeguarding and aid entities to receive IPR safeguarding and aid applications.

Spreading IPR special examination mechanism

According to the draft, the people's government at or above county level should establish IPR special examination mechanism for important economic activities, supervise and inspect the M&A and technology exports involving national interests and key independent IPRs, build IPR statistics and assessment system as well.