B[The three departments jointly issued the "Agricultural Brand Protection Special Action Implementation Plan (2026-2027)"] On October 9, in order to thoroughly implement the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, strengthen agricultural brand protection, severely crack down on infringement and illegal activities, create a fair and orderly market environment, boost consumer confidence, and protect farmers' interests, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the State Administration for Market Regulation, and the State Intellectual Property Office recently jointly issued the "Agricultural Brand Protection Special Action Implementation Plan (2026-2027)." This special operation has four key tasks:
The first is to strengthen the quality and safety supervision and law enforcement of brand primary agricultural products. Promote brand authorization management, establish a traceability system for the entire process of production, processing, and sales, and promote branded agricultural products to be the first to achieve full traceability, so that their sources can be traced, their destinations can be traced, and their responsibilities can be held accountable.
The second is to severely crack down on illegal activities in the field of agriculture-related trademarks and patents. Strictly investigate and punish illegal activities such as agricultural trademark infringement, geographical indication infringement, and counterfeit patents, strictly regulate the use of deceptive trademarks in the agricultural field and other behaviors that mislead the public, and investigate and punish violations of collective trademarks and certification trademark use management rules in accordance with the law.
The third is to severely crack down on unfair competition. Strictly crack down on unfair competition behaviors such as "free riding" and "famous brand", focusing on the unauthorized use of unique and similar names, packaging, decoration and other confusing behaviors such as well-known regional public brands and geographical indication brands, focusing on investigating and punishing operators who make false or misleading commercial publicity about their product performance, functions, quality, sales status, user evaluations, honors, etc., as well as behaviors that damage competitors through commercial slander and other means.
The fourth is to strengthen administrative protection of agricultural-related intellectual property rights. Support agricultural brand entities to strengthen the protection of brand rights and interests through multi-dimensional intellectual property layout such as trademarks, patents, geographical indications, and new plant varieties. Standardize trademark registration management to prevent and stop malicious registration. B[The State Administration of Financial Supervision, the Ministry of Science and Technology and other departments jointly held a science and technology insurance exchange and promotion meeting. Multiple parties collaborated to support technological innovation] On September 28, the General Administration of Financial Supervision, the Ministry of Science and Technology and other departments jointly held a science and technology insurance exchange and promotion meeting to summarize the practical experience of local and insurance institutions and deploy key work for the next step. The meeting requested that we should focus on major national science and technology tasks and technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises, expand insurance coverage, and promote technology insurance to enter parks, incubators, and high-tech zones. It is necessary to optimize insurance products around the entire chain of research and development, pilot testing, achievement transformation, first trial and first use, and industrialization, and embed risk assessment, monitoring and early warning, and hidden danger investigation into the enterprise innovation process. Insurance institutions must strengthen their own construction in terms of policies, products, teams, talents, assessments, etc., accumulate scientific and technological risk data, and improve actuarial pricing. Insurance funds must be invested early, small, long-term, and in hard technology through bonds, funds, equity, asset securitization, etc. Financial supervision, science and technology, industry and information technology, finance, intellectual property and other departments must strengthen coordination, coordinate support for innovation and fund security management, and create a good development environment. At the same time, the conference also launched a science and technology insurance themed publicity activity and exchanged science and technology insurance policies and typical cases. B[Qingdao: Released Implementation Plan to Promote Intellectual Property Pledge Financing] September 23rd, Qingdao City recently issued the "Implementation Plan on Promoting the Improvement and Expansion of Intellectual Property Pledge Financing (2026-2028)", and simultaneously released the "Qingdao "Qingzhidai" Product Guidelines" and "Implementation Guidelines for the Internal Valuation System of Intellectual Property Pledge Financing", focusing on the work goals of "cost reduction, quality improvement, expansion, and efficiency enhancement" of intellectual property pledge financing, and actively creating a full-chain service ecosystem. The "Implementation Plan" covers three major parts: overall requirements, work measures and guarantee mechanisms. It is guaranteed by the "1+2" institutional system and supported by the "1+N" supporting service mechanism. It promotes the construction of excellent policy guidance, excellent product supply, excellent evaluation system, excellent supporting services, promotes information sharing, promotes departmental linkage, promotes process simplification, promotes assessment and incentives, promotes cost reduction, promotes training and publicity, and promotes ecological co-construction of the "four optimizations and seven promotions" full-process work system, creating a "Qingdao model" for intellectual property pledge financing. B[Two departments: Accelerate the development of electronic design automation tools (EDA) and intellectual property cores (IP cores) and promote technological breakthroughs and applications such as three-dimensional integration] On September 15, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the National Development and Reform Commission issued the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan for the Development of Electronic Information Manufacturing Industry", which mentioned that promoting research on the entire integrated circuit chain. Develop high-end chip products such as high-performance processors, high-density memories, high-reliability analog and digital-analog hybrid chips. Improve the level of integrated circuit manufacturing, refine and mature processes, and improve advanced process capabilities. Promote the development and application of advanced packaging and testing technology. Promote the quality and upgrading of the wide-bandgap semiconductor industry, and promote the industrial development of ultra-wide-bandgap semiconductors such as gallium oxide and diamond. Continue to improve the supply capacity of key equipment, materials and parts, accelerate the development of electronic design automation tools (EDA) and intellectual property core (IP core), and promote technological breakthroughs and applications such as three-dimensional integration. B[The 21st China International Small and Medium Enterprises Expo opens in Guangzhou] On September 3rd, the 21st China International Small and Medium Enterprises Expo opened in Guangzhou on September 3rd. With the theme of "Artificial Intelligence Empowering Small and Medium-sized Enterprises", this China Expo will hold Asia-Pacific small and medium-sized enterprise digital intelligence technology and application scenarios supply and demand docking activities, APEC small and medium-sized enterprise "Investment Day" themed activities, "January One Chain" financing promotion nationwide activities (Guangzhou station), small and medium-sized enterprise service capability improvement activities, and hold professional exhibitions focusing on embodied intelligence, integrated circuits, new materials and other fields. The exhibition also held theme activities such as the docking of small and medium-sized enterprises' overseas intellectual property layout and international standards around policy publicity, new product launches, international cooperation, industry docking, innovation empowerment, etc., as well as more than 60 events such as new product launches, integration and docking of large and medium-sized enterprises, and overseas business promotions. A set of activities will comprehensively demonstrate the application results of artificial intelligence technology in manufacturing, service industries and future industries, guide small and medium-sized enterprises to explore intelligent development paths, promote the implementation of new industrial technologies, new models and new business formats, and help small and medium-sized enterprises better integrate into the global industrial chain and supply chain system. B[The 15th China Intellectual Property Annual Conference will set multiple topics around artificial intelligence and intellectual property] On September 2, it was learned from the media briefing of the 15th China Intellectual Property Annual Conference that the annual conference will set up multiple topics around artificial intelligence and intellectual property. Focusing on the legal dimension of AI intellectual property governance, we conducted discussions on cutting-edge topics such as the copyright legality of large model training data, the copyrightability of AIGC products, the sharing of infringement liability in human-machine co-creation scenarios, and the practical application of AI tools in patent retrieval and trademark monitoring. We discussed the evolution direction of intellectual property rules in the AI era from the three dimensions of justice, administration, and industry. Focusing on the technical dimension of the development of the artificial intelligence industry, and focusing on topics such as AI native technology and next-generation innovation paradigms, embodied intelligence and future industrial transformation, and AI restructuring of enterprise organizations and production methods, representatives from the Intellectual Property Center of the Artificial Intelligence Industry Working Committee, the Electronic Intellectual Property Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and embodied intelligence enterprise representatives were invited to discuss how AI can move from the digital world to the physical world, and from technological breakthroughs to industrial transformation. (CCTV News) A[The Ministry of Commerce and other 7 departments: Promote the consumption of high-quality cultural products such as green intelligence, diversified adaptation, and national fashion creativity] August 31st, the Ministry of Commerce and other 7 departments have implemented opinions on promoting the expansion and upgrading of commodity consumption. It pointed out that promoting the consumption of high-quality cultural products such as green intelligence, multiple adaptations, and national fashion creativity. Expand and optimize sports consumption scenarios and stimulate the consumption potential of competitive sports, outdoor sports, fitness and leisure and other related products. Optimize the supply of ethnic musical instruments and smart musical instruments, and enrich musical instrument consumption scenarios. Expand consumption of 3D printing-related products. Develop the consumption of peripheral derivatives, improve the development mechanism of IP derivatives, improve the level of transformation of cultural creativity, and launch a number of themed products and tourist routes. Continue to optimize the IP consumption environment, focusing on increasing the protection of intellectual property rights related to designs, trademarks, etc. A[Shanghai Intellectual Property Office: As of the end of June The number of high-value invention patents per 10,000 people in the city increased by 9.0% year-on-year] On August 31, it was learned from the Shanghai Intellectual Property Office that as of the end of June 2026, the number of high-value invention patents per 10,000 people in the city was 67.6, a year-on-year increase of 9.0%. The number of valid invention patents increased by 9.0%; the number of valid invention patents was 337,000, a year-on-year increase of 14.7%; the number of valid trademark registrations was 2.995 million, a year-on-year increase of 5.2%; the number of patent license transfers was 24,500, a year-on-year increase of 28.3%. (China Business News)
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