Officials announced today (27th) that the National Intellectual Property Administration and the National Data Administration have jointly issued a document to strengthen the development and utilization of intellectual property data resources.
The directive focuses on consolidating the foundation of intellectual property data resources and refining management systems. It outlines comprehensive requirements for the entire lifecycle of data management, covering collection, aggregation, storage, processing, sharing, and opening. Enhanced classified and graded management will define usage boundaries and security requirements for various data types, alongside the implementation of data security risk assessments. A national catalog of intellectual property data resources will be compiled, establishing a unified "single ledger" for this data.
Local authorities are required to establish robust systems for the development, utilization, and security assurance of regional intellectual property data. They will implement list-based management for these resources, fully integrating them into the local public data resource catalog system.
The document also calls for improving the standards system for intellectual property data. This includes researching and developing standards for basic data, data governance, development and utilization, and data security, ensuring alignment with relevant industry standards and technical specifications. Local governments are encouraged to actively participate in standard development, organizing industry associations, service institutions, and key enterprises to contribute to the process.
Infrastructure development is a key focus. The directive mandates optimizing the functions of the National Intellectual Property Big Data Center to enhance its foundational architecture, strengthen data governance, and bolster monitoring, early warning, and security capabilities, positioning it as the central infrastructure hub for national intellectual property data. Support will be provided for qualified regions to build regional data centers, facilitating secure, bidirectional data flow between central and local systems for coordinated operation. The establishment of trusted data spaces for intellectual property, connected to the national data infrastructure, is encouraged to foster a secure and trustworthy environment for multi-source data, promoting cross-field, cross-department, and cross-level sharing.
The directive promotes the application of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, and blockchain. This includes the orderly development, training, and deployment of industry-specific large models. Local authorities are encouraged to explore building public service intelligent agents for different application scenarios and to develop user-friendly intelligent service tools, thereby increasing the intelligence level of data resource utilization. Efforts will be made to steadily advance the construction of high-quality intellectual property datasets, enrich their content, and encourage their registration and certification within the national dataset management service system. Research and prevention measures for security risks associated with AI applications will also be strengthened.
To expand data resource supply, the document emphasizes advancing data sharing by adhering to national government data sharing requirements. This involves balancing proactive sharing with on-demand sharing, continuously increasing the types of shared data, and incorporating them into the national government data catalog to ensure "one source for one number" for intellectual property government data. Local governments will establish cross-departmental sharing mechanisms to gradually achieve interconnectivity and integration of intellectual property data with data from science and technology, finance, and market regulation.
Data opening will be enhanced by broadening channels and optimizing methods to improve accessibility. The National Intellectual Property Public Service Platform will be upgraded to meet the basic data service needs of innovators and the public, including inquiry, retrieval, acquisition, and utilization. Local authorities will increase the promotion and distribution of data usage manuals and analytical guides to help innovators use intellectual property data resources efficiently and correctly.
The directive outlines exploring authorized operations of public intellectual property data. The National Intellectual Property Administration will strengthen the overall management of such operations, improve the authorization mechanisms, and enhance their standardization. In collaboration with the National Data Administration, it will guide local authorities in conducting these operations safely and orderly, selecting operators based on merit, and strengthening oversight to provide professional services for in-depth data processing, feature development, and market-oriented applications.
Deepening the application of these data resources is intended to support government decision-making. By comprehensively using multi-source data from intellectual property, science and technology, industry, and market regulation, authorities can conduct regional innovation capability assessments and patent navigation for key industries. This will inform the formulation of industrial policies and the cultivation of high-quality innovation entities. Statistical analysis of intellectual property pledge financing, licensing, and transfer data will be strengthened to optimize operational management mechanisms. Correlation analysis of patent applications, trademark registrations, and credit supervision data will help identify abnormal situations violating the principle of good faith and leads on irregular agency practices, promoting normalized and long-term industry supervision. Data interoperability with judicial judgments and administrative enforcement will be promoted to enhance the effectiveness of collaborative intellectual property protection.
Information services will be optimized by deepening the "one-stop online processing" and "cross-province processing" for intellectual property affairs, making it easier to accomplish more tasks efficiently. By strengthening data aggregation, databases will be constructed including industrial patent pools, key industry patents, standard essential patents, geographical indication special topics, and overseas litigation cases, providing access to more high-quality information resources. The integrated application of intellectual property data with judicial, scientific, financial, and market regulation data will support the implementation of financial services like pledge financing, securitization, and insurance. Services such as marketability analysis of patents and enterprise demand discovery will be supported to facilitate efficient matching in patent commercialization and transformation.
Finally, the directive focuses on empowering enterprise innovation by deeply embedding data utilization throughout the entire process of R&D, commercialization, and rights protection. This includes analyzing technology lifecycles, tracking patent trends in real-time, identifying technology gaps, and scientifically determining R&D directions. Analyzing key patented technologies and referencing existing solutions will help define R&D paths and support core technology breakthroughs. Research on layout strategies will support pre-application assessments and patent freedom-to-operate analyses, aiding in the reasonable layout of high-value patents and promoting the commercialization of technological achievements. Patent early warning analyses, risk assessments, and infringement monitoring will be strengthened to effectively identify and prevent risks, safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of enterprises.