The Method has made detailed provisions on the scope of invention patent applications that could be subject to priority review, that is, important patent applications relating to technical fields of energy conservation and environmental protection, new generation of information technology, biological and high-end equipment manufacturing, new energy, new material and new energy vehicle etc. and low-carbon technology and conservation resources etc. that are beneficial to green development; first application in China on the same topic applied for the first time in China and then designated to other countries or regions; other patent applications that of significance in terms of national or public goods and have to be reviewed with priority. However, for applications under Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) and EU-China cooperation agreement and other bilateral or multilateral cooperation agreements by China's State Intellectual Property Office and patent review institutions in other countries or regions, the priority review matters of patent application shall be handled according to relevant agreements and this Method is not applicable.

According to requirements of the Method, the invention patent applications requiring priority review must be submitted in electronic form and shall be started with substantive review procedures. The applicant has to submit relevant materials of Petition for Priority Review of Invention patent Application to handle priority review procedures, and the allotted time for the applicant to reply the review notice is two months. If the applicant fails to reply within the allotted time, the State Intellectual Property Office will stop the priority review and will deal with it as general applications.

Since the opening of the conference on 20^th June, 721 representatives from 202 delegations have, through a series of constructive work on qualification review and clauses amendment etc., made the international treaty for the protection of the rights of audiovisual performers after more than ten years’ negotiations. Francis Gurry highly praised Chinese government for its contribution to the diplomatic conference on behalf of the World Intellectual Property Organization.

As the first international intellectual property treaty entered in China, the treaty has endowed performers of audiovisual works such as films with the rights to legally permit or prohibit others from using their performance. After this, rights of reproduction and issurance etc. enjoyed by voice performers such as composers, lyrics writers and singers etc. will also be enjoyed by film actors and other performers of audiovisual works.

It is learnt that the amendment of the copyright law has attracted wide concerns and discussions from all social circles. By 31^st May, the National Copyright Administration of China has received more than 1，600 opinions and suggestions from all social circles. The amendment this time deleted three clauses of the original draft, added three clauses thereto and changed 48 clauses, in which, 27 clauses were subject to content change and 21 clauses were subject to words change.

According to the agreement, the Americans can obtain patent information of China from the website of the United States Patent and Trademark Office in the future. On the other hand, the Chinese Intellectual Property Office can also offer American property information to Chinese via the official website and Chinese local service center of patent information. After the signing of the agreement, the two bureaus both expressed their willingness to further cooperate in the aspects of patent data sharing, etc.

The advice stresses that we should legally carry out its judicial duty regarding grant and affirmation of patent rights, improve the judicial quality and efficiency of the patent grant and affirmation,encourage inventions; strengthen the judicial protection of industrial design, inspire the designers’ passion to create, promote profound changes of Chinese industrial design and manufacturing standards; clear the attribution of technological achievements by law, which encourage the employees’ enthusiasm for technological innovation, on the other hand, encourage enterprises to increase investment in researching and enhance the social creativity; deal with the relationship between patent and standard properly to realize their mutual development and virtuous cycling and improve the core competitiveness of innovation.

The Opinions points out that we should stop unfair competition and monopolistic behavior in the field of science and technology, create a fair and orderly environment for innovation, promote the rational allocation and efficient use of innovating resources, strengthen judicial protection for trade secrets, safeguard the legal order for innovation, increase the efforts to protect agricultural and technological outcome and promote innovation in relation to agriculture. We should strengthen judicial protection for trademarks in technological fields, bring to full play the well-known brands’ cohesion and integration power o innovative resources; increase the efforts to protect copyright in the field of technology and business, promote the development of technological innovation, cultural innovation and new industry, exercise judicial functions in the field of technology, create the environment to promote technological innovation and fully exercise penalty and punishment against intellectual property crime.

The Opinions stresses that we should promote rational allocation of innovation element, promote the connection between technology and development of economy and society, handle the technologyl contract disputes, turn scientific and technological achievements into practical productivity, and deal with emlpoyment disputes in the field of technology, guarantee reasonalbe flow of talents in technology, handle the corporate reconstructuring and bankruptcy disputes in technological field, optimize the mechanism of innovation, properly handle financial disputes in technological field, promote financial support on technological innovation and the disputes out of technological field to promote the international cooperation and exchange in technology.

PPH refers to that if the Patent Office (OFF) to which the applicant submits the first application believes that at least one claim may be granted, then as long as the follow-up requests can meet certain conditions, the applicant can require the OSF to speed up the follow-up applications, based on the work results of OFF.

The Sino-Russian PPH pilot project includes both conventional PPH and PCH-PPH. Then applicants can request PPH at SIPO according to Process of PPH in the project of PPH pilot project or request PPH at ROSPATENT according to Request to POSPATENT by the process of PPH under the Russian- Sino PPH pilot project. The trial period of the programme is one year, which ends on 30^th June, 2013.

The start of the Sino-Russian PPH pilot programme plays a positive role to promote implementation of the national intellectual property strategy, support enterprises and other market players to obtain patent overseas as soon as possible.

The applicants who request PPH to the Property Office of China, can visit http://www.sipo.gov.cn/ztzl/ywzt/pph/ to know relevant requirements; the applicants who request PPH to the Property Office of Russian Federation, can visit http://www.rupto.ru/mejd_sotr/sod/pph/PPH.html to know relevant requirements.

According to relevant officer at Shenzhen United Equity Exchange, through the Sino-US technology transformation center, they will establish a technology-capital global trade network, in order to fully absorb foreign advanced concept and successful experiences, vigorously introduce the excellent professional agencies to Shenzhen for innovative service, set up the international technology transfer platform with the concept of "science-technology& financial & service" , built up a center of prospective, high-end and service for concentration, transaction and allocation of technologies, so as to realize an innovative technology transaction mode for combined technology and capital.

According to the third patent auction organization arrangement, the auction will launch nationwide promotion activities in the near future. The promotional areas will include information industry intensive areas like Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Liaoning and other areas. They will walk into the high-tech zones, closely communicating with the enterprises, promoting the auction target and introducing the related matters.

After the promotion activities, the lead host will choose areas of concentrated demands to hold on-site auctions from October. More details at www.ctex.cn