On June 7, State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) IP Research Center published their research result named 2015 China IP Development Status Report. The report have made a thorough review and analysis on the IP development status across all provinces of China in 2015 and during 2010 - 2015 respectively, surrounding the topics of innovation, utilization, protection and environment of IP.

Meanwhile, comparisons have been given on three dimensions, namely, IP ability, performance and environment, among the top 40 countries with largest technology resource inputs and IP outputs. According to the finding, China IP development is improving steadily with increased ranking among the international counterparts.

The status index sets year 2010 as the basis, and a basic score of 100 for all development indexes including overall, innovation, development, protection and environment, so as to calculate the index scores for China from 2010 to 2015. According to the calculation, China’s IP overall development index moved up steadily and reached 187.35 in 2015. Among this, IP innovation development index is 164.83, utilization development index 174.48, protection development index 211.75 and environment development index 198.34. These growths reflect the development achieved by China after the deployment of the IP strategies devised by the State since 2008.

Internationally, according to the report, China’s ranking is moving upwards gradually each year and among the 40 sample countries, China rose from No. 19 to No. 8 at a considerable rate. In 2014, China’s IP overall development international index is 55.38, up by 1.19; however, it is still at a great distance from US and Japan; while China’s IP capacity index is 64.94, ranked No.3 and the distance from Japan, which is the runner-up, is getting smaller; performance index 50.20, increased by 3.96 from the previous year and ranked No. 3; however the environment index 42.32, increased by 0.49 from the previous year remained at the ranking of No. 30; indicating an uneven rankings distribution. Establishing the IP environment is a long-term and challenging task。 According to the report, the market environment index and cultural environment index had increased by 0.57 and 1.73 respectively sat the rates of 1.76% and 6.54% only, which can only match the average increase rates of all the sample countries. In other words, the improvement in both market and cultural environments is not quite obvious. As shown in the report, China is in lack of input for building IP market and cultural environments and the structure of the environments shall be adjusted so as to improve them. (Source: China Economy Net)