Around 80% of Corporations in TEDA Are Setting Up Stratagem and Systems for Intellectual Property Rights

Around 80% of Corporations in TEDA Are Setting Up Stratagem and Systems for Intellectual Property Rights

April 28, 2007

Running Ahead in the Industrialization Rate of Domestic
Patents


    TIANJIN, China, April 28 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- In
recent years, Tianjin Economic-Technological Development
Area (TEDA) has endeavored to build a high level of modern
manufacturing practices in order to enhance the ability of
self-innovation and technological competitiveness.  TEDA
has emphasized the utilization of intellectual property
rights.  Thus, circumstances for solid self-innovation have
been created and the core competitiveness of corporations,
and their abilities to utilize intellectual property
rights, have been enhanced.

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    As of today, along with an enhanced consciousness of
intellectual property rights, 80% of the corporations in
TEDA have set up a stratagem and systems for intellectual
property rights.  Patent application quantities have
increased at a rate of 70%, annually, and the
industrialization rate of patents is in the top position,
domestically.  77% of the corporations with patent
application cases have executed industrialization of their
patents. Self-development and imports from parent companies
have become major technical resources for these
corporations.

    For recent years, patent application quantities in TEDA
have increased quickly.  According to data from the State
Intellectual Property Office of the PRC (SIPO), patent
application quantities in TEDA have increased at a rate of
73% since 2002.  In 2006, newly added patent application
cases reached 600, at an increase of 76% in comparison with
2005. Since 2007, patent applications have been extremely
active and there is an average of three new patents daily.

    Patent applications from corporations in TEDA have
exceeded 1,800 at present.  In view of technical resources
for the corporations, among the 60 corporations with patent
application cases, 50 of them are mainly depending on the
self-development of key techniques.  It indicates that
these corporations possess certain development and research
abilities.  Among these corporations, 37 of them have
executed between 1-5 patents, 5 of them have executed
between 5-10 patents and 4 of them have executed more than
10 patents.  That is to say, 77% of these corporations have
executed their patents.  And 11 of them have transferred
their patents or awarded warrants successfully, except for
their own execution.

    In view of this, TEDA found that the majority of
corporations with patent applications in the Area, a
fertile soil to nourish corporations, have actively made
use of their patent techniques on products or began to
produce products with patent techniques directly.  All
these technique-based corporations began to obtain
competitive advantages and larger market returns through
their patented products. 

    About Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area
(TEDA)

    Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA)
was established in 1984 with the approval of the State
Council of the People's Republic of China.  It is one of
the first state-class economic-technological development
areas in the country. 

    TEDA is located in the center of a larger area
bordering Bohai Sea and the east of the Asia-Europe Land
Bridge, thus serving as the gate to the two super cities of
Beijing and Tianjin, and the throat connecting the northeast
of China.  By the end of 2005, 4,067 foreign companies have
landed in TEDA.  Of the Fortune 500 companies, 57
multinational companies, from 10 countries and regions,
including such well-established multinational giants as
Motorola, Samsung and Toyota, invested in 123 enterprises
in TEDA.  In 2000, "Fortune" listed TEDA as one
of the most highly recommended economic areas in China.  In
2002 UNIDO listed TEDA as one of the most dynamic areas of
China together with Shenzhen, Suzhou, Wenzhou, Shanghai
Pudong and Xi'an High-tech Park.

    For more information, please visit:
http://www.investteda.org .


    For more information, please contact:

     Ding Lei of TEDA
     Tel:   [phone]
  
     Yang Chonghao of TEDA
     Tel:   [phone]