On March 21, 2025, China’s National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) and 6 other government bodies released the “Opinions of the State Intellectual Property Office, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the State Administration for Market Regulation, the State Financial Regulatory Administration, the National Copyright Administration and the Chinese Academy of Sciences on further optimizing the business environment in the field of intellectual property” (国家知识产权局 教育部 科技部 市场监管总局 金融监管总局 国家版权局 中国科学院关于进一步优化知识产权领域营商环境的意见).
performing in-depth credit evaluation of patent and trademark agencies, and promptly disclose the evaluation results of agencies and practitioners to provide guidance for enterprises and the public to choose agencies;
standardize the standards and procedures for the identification and listing of serious untrustworthy entities in the field of intellectual property rights, and impose penalties on serious untrustworthy entities in the field of intellectual property rights in accordance with laws and regulations;
formulate licensing guidelines for standard essential patents, promote fair and reasonable licensing of standard essential patents, and prevent companies from using standard essential patents to implement monopoly behavior;
establish a special database on standard essential patents to facilitate access to information on standard essential patents;
accelerate the revision and deliberation of the new round of trademark law and its implementing regulations, strengthen the obligation to use trademarks, and further strengthen the regulation of malicious preemptive registration and other behaviors;