Rational response to industry intellectual property disputes for Industrial sewing machine

According to china's refereeing documents network data show that the sewing machinery industry intellectual property disputes, there have been more than 100 documents, of which more than 75% occurred during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period. In recent years, with the deepening of industry innovation drive, the number of intellectual property applications and protection awareness of enterprises have increased, related disputes show a high trend. In view of this, the Association organized some of the backbone enterprises, around the issue of intellectual property rights to discuss and elaborate. sex to deal with intellectual property disputes in the industry.

According to the Association, during the 13th Five-Year Plan period (January 1, 2016 to November 20, 2020), the industry filed 7,583 patent applications for inventions, with a cumulative number of patent applications reaching 25,088, close to doubling the total number of patent applications filed in the industry. (Since the establishment of intellectual property filing in China, the total number of patent applications filed in the industry since the end of 2015 was 27,474.) Correspondingly, investment in scientific research and innovation in the industry remains at a sustained high level, with the cumulative investment of enterprises expected to reach 6.5 billion yuan over five years. Even more exciting is that the industry invention patents to maintain an average annual growth rate of 20%, compared with the 2015 release of the "sewing machinery industry power development strategy", in terms of the number of effective invention patents, the industry in terms of innovation ability, has reached the development goals of a strong country ahead of time.

During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, under the guidance and promotion of the China Sewing Machinery Association, industry enterprises around the "smart sewing factory technology and solutions" the main direction, the pace of independent innovation significantly accelerated, intellectual property rights fruitful, the number of core patents rapidly increasing. At the same time, the application of the industry's intellectual property results more and more extensive, the effect and role is also growing, intellectual property rights has become one of the main driving force of the development of the industry, from patents into new products, in the backbone of the enterprise sales share to maintain an increasing trend year by year.
Industry innovation drives the condensation and consolidation of new momentum, on the one hand, the number of intellectual property applications and protection awareness of enterprises are increasing. On the other hand, it also brings the high incidence of intellectual property disputes in the industry. In this regard, some of the industry's backbone enterprises expounded their views and views.

Mr. Zhang of Shenzhen Chaocheng Sewing Technology said that:" In the face of disputes, we will generally take the letter to inform, lawyers letter warning and other ways to carry out early docking, if not effective, will be legal proceedings. However, the litigation time is long, the process is many, not only consumes too much energy and resources, there are also technical limitations in professional identification"

As a guide to leading and coordinating the overall development of the industry, China Sewing Machinery Association has always paid attention to the work of intellectual property rights in the industry: in 2004 issued the "Industry Intellectual Property Work Programme", "Exhibition Intellectual Property Management Measures" and other documents and guidance; Enterprises are encouraged to try to use patents for mutual or paid use, and to provide coordination assistance to enterprises in need free of charge. In addition, the Association for various branch areas, innovative intellectual property work mechanism, in 2019, the Industrial Sewing Machine branch organized 21 member units jointly signed the "China Sewing Machinery Association Embroidery Machine branch of the intellectual property protection self-discipline convention", jointly created a new atmosphere for the industry to respect and protect intellectual property rights.