China's equipment manufacturing patent application quality double

The Department of Equipment Industry and Technology of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology jointly issued the “Patent Situation Report 2012 for Equipment Manufacturing” on December 11, 2012. The "Report" selected five major areas of machine tools, seals, commercial aviation turbofan engine cores, ships, and offshore drilling platforms for patent situational warning analysis.

Deputy Director of the Department of Equipment Industry of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Li Wei, said that this time a representative industry that will play a leading role in the development of the equipment manufacturing industry will be selected. Next year, this work will further deepen and expand the equipment manufacturing industry. The work involved in patents and intellectual property protection in the field of industry has been done and done.

Han Jun, Deputy Director of the Technology Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that during the “12th Five-Year Plan” period, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology attached great importance to the work of intellectual property rights during the “12th Five-Year Plan” period and will implement two major projects: one is the cultivation of intellectual property rights for enterprises; the other is knowledge The early-warning project of property rights risk assessment is to preferentially select areas such as the upgrading of traditional industries and the development of strategic emerging industries, and carry out early warning analysis of industry patents in stages. He emphasized that the industries announced this time are all selected technical fields. There will be more fields to be included in the research next year. Strive to make early warning and patent analysis work in the transformation and upgrading process to play its due role.

Strengthen Early Warning Analysis and Promote Equipment Industry to Strengthen

Zhang Zhicheng, deputy director of the Department of Protection and Coordination of the State Intellectual Property Office, emphasized that intellectual property rights are the core elements for the promotion of strategic development of equipment manufacturing industry and the improvement of industrial competitiveness.

"Report" shows that from 1985 to 2011 China's equipment manufacturing patent applications can be roughly divided into three phases. The "Seventh Five-Year Plan" period was in its infancy, with the number of patent applications growing rapidly, with an average annual growth rate of 30%; the "Eighth Five-Year Plan" and "Ninth Five-Year Plan" period were flat development periods, and the average annual growth rate of patent applications was 7.9% and 16% respectively. "The 10th Five-Year Plan" and "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" have entered an accelerated development period, and the average annual growth rate of patent applications has reached 20.2% and 28.1% respectively.

It should be pointed out that after 2009, the growth of patent applications for equipment manufacturing has become even more rapid. In 2010, the number of applications exceeded 350,000, and in 2011 it reached 432,000, an increase of 24.37% year-on-year, accounting for 26.5% of the total number of patent applications; The number of patent applications was 154,000, a year-on-year increase of 20.68%, accounting for 29.3% of the total number of invention patent applications. It can be seen that China's equipment manufacturing industry has become the industry with the most patent applications in the industrial field.

From the point of view of development characteristics, the number of patent applications between 2005 and 2011 is generally consistent with the changes in the total output value of the equipment manufacturing industry. The equipment manufacturing industry, whether from the number of patent applications or the number of patent applications for inventions, accounts for nearly one-third of the total number of patent applications in China, and has become the backbone of patent applications, and the ability to innovate industries continues to increase.

From the perspective of the application for patents for inventions in key industries, they are mainly concentrated in fields such as electrical and electronic equipment, instrumentation, general petrochemical equipment, automobiles and machine tools.

Among them, the patent density (refers to the ratio of the amount of patents and sales value) of the higher industries are food packaging and tobacco machinery, printing machinery, instrumentation, metal manufacturing and other four industries, indicating that these four industries are relatively high level of technology Stronger innovation capability; the patent density of electrical and electronic equipment and petrochemical equipment industry is at a medium level, which indicates that the technical content of the industry is relatively weak; the patent density of industries such as automobiles and railway transportation equipment is at a relatively low level. It shows that China has not yet fully grasped the core key technologies of these industries.

Although China's equipment manufacturing industry has become a "big account" for patent applications, the overall quality level has yet to be improved compared with foreign counterparts. China has become a big country in equipment manufacturing, but it is not yet a powerful country in equipment manufacturing. Experts believe that how to strengthen the industry's patent early warning analysis through the issuance of the “Report” and further promote the development of the industry is the key.

Chen Qi, President of the China Shipbuilding Technology Comprehensive Economic Research Institute, stated that the patent situation publishing work in key areas of equipment manufacturing and key technology areas is based on the past patent situation, and in a broader context, strengthens technological innovation and knowledge. The important means of synergy of property rights. It is an effective measure to guide the progress of industrial technology. It will vigorously promote the growth of technology-intensive industries. To promote the implementation of intellectual property rights in the equipment manufacturing industry, it is of great practical significance to promote industrial transformation and upgrading.

The number of patents is related to the industry's "positive"

From the perspective of sub-sectors, the analysis of the “Report” shows that the number and quality of patent applications in the field of equipment manufacturing in China are closely related to the level of technological development in the industry, and can be said to be positively related.

In the machine tool industry, the total number of patents in the global machine tool industry has increased in recent years. Before and after 2003, due to the emergence of composite machine tool technology, the number of patents in the machine tool industry grew rapidly and then gradually declined. However, after 2006, the machine tool patents showed a recovery growth, indicating that there are new opportunities for machine tool technology. After 2008, the machine tool The industry was hit by the global financial crisis, but the amount of patents remained stable.

With the increasing emphasis on intellectual property in China, especially after the proposal of building an innovative country, the number of patents in China's machine tool industry has grown significantly, especially after 2006, which has increased by about 4.5 times, indicating that China's machine tool industry passed the introduction of technology. The digestion and absorption and independent development of the industry, the rapid development of industrial technology; at the same time, the awareness of independent intellectual property rights of enterprises is continuously improving, and it has begun to attach importance to the importance of patent protection to the development of industry technology.

Li Hao said that the machine tool industry is a microcosm of the entire equipment manufacturing industry. There are many “problems” that are reflected in the equipment manufacturing industry. For example, the industry with high patent density has strong innovation capability. The food packaging, tobacco machinery, instrumentation, basic manufacturing and other industries have strong independent innovation capabilities. For example, regional economic development with relatively large numbers of patents is relatively better. The speed of patent applications in the machine tool industry is accelerating, but the quality is not high. The number of applications for the machine tool industry exceeds 30% each year, but the integrated and key components are also subject to control, indicating that there are still major deficiencies in the core areas and high-end areas.

In the seal industry, from 1985 to 2000, the total number of patent applications in China's seal industry has remained stable, and the number of patents filed each year has not exceeded 100. After 2001, the number of applications has increased, especially after 2005. There has been rapid growth, and the average annual patent application volume has increased by 30.27% from 2005 to 2011.

Li Wei pointed out that from the “Report”, the characteristics of the seal industry are as follows: First, the patent application and protection work is in good shape; second, the level is relatively low, and there is a large gap with foreign countries; third, there is potential for the development of the industry; Need national policies and financial support. At present, in the field of seals, state-owned enterprises, private enterprises, and foreign-funded enterprises have formed a three-pronged situation. The output value basically accounts for one-third. If the seal is controlled by people, it will drag the entire equipment manufacturing industry. He emphasized that basic components, basic processes, and basic materials (hereinafter referred to as "three basics") are the key areas in which equipment manufacturing industry urgently needs development, and are also very important basic tasks. As an important part of the "three-base" industry, seals will pass through if they do well.

In the field of high pressure compressors for aero-engines, the number of patents applied for in China before 2001 was still very small, and it surged after 2002 and reached a peak of 175 in 2009. Among them, most of the patents were applied by General Electric. At present, the number of patents applied for by domestic aero-engine development units is relatively small, indicating that patent protection for independent innovation results needs to be strengthened in this area.

Regarding the importance of aircraft engine R&D and manufacturing, Li Zheng stressed that in the field of civil aircraft, the engine has always been a shortcoming for the development of the entire industry, and the "heart disease" problem has not been well resolved. If the aviation industry is the crown of the industry, then the engine is the crown of the crown and is at the top of the industry chain. It has great synergy with various industries.

In the field of shipbuilding, among the 16,709 Chinese patent applications currently retrieved, there are 14,820 in China, accounting for 89% of the total, which occupies an absolute advantage. Chinese patent applications maintained a rapid growth. From 2001 to 2010, the average annual growth rate of applications was 27.6%. It can be seen that with the increase of the government's driving force, especially the implementation of the national intellectual property strategy, the awareness of intellectual property rights of the main players in the domestic market has been promoted. On the other hand, with the increasingly fierce international competition in the shipbuilding industry, domestic companies began to respond to the challenges by actively applying for patents.

“From the applicant’s point of view, when foreign companies apply for ship patents, enterprises account for 95%, while Chinese individual applications account for half of the total, and universities and research institutes account for 20%.” To this end, Li Wei stressed that it is necessary to accelerate the production of ships. Combining research and teaching.

The offshore rig is a strategic emerging industry that started late. The "Report" shows that the application of the world's ocean drilling platform patents has maintained growth since 1993. Since the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" in China, its patent applications have been developing rapidly under the dual role of market demand and technological development. As of October this year, there were 458 public patents, ranking third in the world. The number of foreign applicants coming to China is less than a quarter of the domestic number. The gap between China and some developed countries is gradually decreasing.

From the above analysis, we can see that the state of the patent has become a microcosm of the state of development of the industry. Accelerating the promotion of intellectual property rights is particularly important for promoting industry transformation and upgrading.

In this regard, Han Jun emphasized the importance of industrial intellectual property strategy as an important step in industrial transformation and upgrading, focusing on R&D, focusing on breakthroughs in key technologies that restrict industrial upgrading, and continuously enhancing and enhancing independent innovation capabilities, especially in the creation and application of intellectual property rights. Management and protection capabilities.

Patent quality is not high and the technical level needs to be improved

The "Report" shows that the number of patent applications in the field of equipment manufacturing in China has been increasing year by year, but the quality is not high and the number of invention patents is relatively small. Compared with other foreign industries, the level of technology needs to be improved.

The "Report" pointed out that from 2005 to 2011, the growth rate of global machine tool patent applications was 5.67%, while the growth rate of China's machine tool patents reached 34.71%, far higher than the global machine tool patent growth rate; from 2005 to 2011, China's machine tool invention patents increased. The rate is 25.79%, which also shows a rapid growth rate. In 2011, the number of patents in the field of machine tools in China was 29,309, of which 11,482 were patents for inventions.

It can be seen that despite the rapid growth of patents in China's machine tools, the quality of patents is not high. From 2005 to 2011, the growth rate of China's machine tool invention patents reached 25.79%, but the proportion of invention patents to total patents decreased year by year. In 2006, the number of invention patents in China accounted for 53.71% of total patents. By 2011, the proportion of invention patents to total patents had dropped to 39.18%.

At the same time, in 2011, China’s patent applications accounted for 46.23% of the total global patent applications. However, in the PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty) patent applications with relatively high patent quality, China accounted for only 4.18%.

In the seal industry, although the number of patents in the industry has grown rapidly in recent years, the patent composition is mainly based on utility models.

From 2005 to 2011, the number of invention patents in this industry showed an upward trend, but the rate was only 16.69%, and the average annual growth rate of utility models was as high as 37.26%. In particular, in 2011, the number of patent applications for inventions fell to 22.26% of the total amount of patents (total sum of invention patents and utility model patents), compared with 43.12% in 2005. This indicates that the quality of patents in China's seal industry has been improved. Decline, the overall technical level of the industry needs to be improved. Of the foreign patents applied in China, 98% are invention patents, 2% are utility models, and the proportion of invention patents is 49 times that of utility models.

In the field of shipping, of the 14,820 patent applications currently filed in the country, invention patents accounted for only 35% of the total, and 1,889 were abroad.