China has accelerated the pace to regulate its patent agency sector, which is an important platform to enhance IPR, through a two-year comprehensive regulation project named "Blue Sky." This will include the establishment of a credit rating mechanism.
To speed up the progress, CNIPA has embarked on several tasks, such as organizing patent agencies to carry out comprehensive self-inspection reports and sign credit commitments, according to a statement sent to the Global Times on Agu 15 by CNIPA.
Another task is to enhance the synergistic regulation mechanism by establishing credit files for institutes and agents in the patent agency sector, and to foster a sound disclosing system of credit commitments and punishment information to realize the sentiment, "once dishonest, restricted everywhere".
The All-China Patent Attorneys Association and other related organizations jointly issued a statement on August 9, to coordinate with the "Blue Sky" project by conducting self-inspection and improvement.
Source: Ecns
