Zhongguancun will take the lead in IP service development in the next three years according to its development plan. It will strengthen platform development, upgrade IP service capacity, support innovation and start-up business service, boost Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated IP service developments, enhance IP service personnel cultivation, and speed up the process of IP service internationalization. Zhongguancun will strive to develop three to five comprehensive IP service providers with global influence, a group of new IP service forms featuring internet plus, and high-end inter-disciplinary talent. It will develop IP service industry standards, let IP service play a significant supporting role in mobile internet, cutting-edge information gathering, environmental matters and modern transportation, and form an IP service cluster development mode that can be popularized nationwide.
There were 223 patent agencies in Zhongguancun by the end of 2015, accounting for 60.1 percent of all in Beijing and 17.8 percent nationwide. The number of patent agents stood at 3,166, accounting for 62.9 percent in Beijing and 25.1 percent in China. In addition to patent agency services, IP institutes in Zhongguancun also offer patent analysis, strategic formulation, pre-warning analysis, and patent database construction services.
A number of professional internet IP service platforms were displayed at the meeting. Zhongguancun is accelerating transformation and upgrading of the traditional IP service industry through integrating internet thinking and technology. It is committed to developing a new IP service ecology and becoming a source of new IP service forms.
