China E-ventions
Selected Software-Related Invention Patents
Vol. 2 , No. 6 - June 21, 2002
Welcome to China E-ventions. Keeping up with technology is difficult enough, but learning about new trends in patent examination methods and policies in different countries is a monumental task. One area of keen interest these days involves a particular classification of patent that goes by many names: business method patent, Internet patent, software patent, and so on - in China, "software-related invention patents". To be clear, many of these names have distinct definitions in certain jurisdictions; however, their similarity has caused great confusion for international practitioners.
The purpose of this newsletter is to provide the foreign patent practitioner with China patent news as well as a regular snapshot of how China's State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) is approaching these kinds of inventions.
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China's First Opto-Electronic IPR Information Center Operational
Chinese professionals in the opto-electronics field will now be able to check information contained in the country' s first opto-electronic intellectual property rights (IPR) information center, which opened this week in Wuhan, the capital of central China's Hubei Province.
The new center named, Guanggu Intellectual Property Rights Information Center, stores 30 million pieces of global patent information, one sixth of which relates to opto-electronic IPR information. The center, jointly organized by the State Intellectual Property Office and Wuhan City Government, is expected to further adopt a patent system for China's opto-electronic industry as well as promote innovation in the field.
(Source: Xinhua)
Asia's Life Sciences and Technology Summit Opens in Beijing
Asia's inaugural Science-based Innovation, Life Sciences and Technology Summit recently opened in Beijing.
The three-day symposium, jointly hosted by the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) and the Pacific Rim Forum, has attracted 300 participants from 15 countries and regions in the Pacific Rim, including experts in life sciences and representatives from business and financial organizations. During the symposium, delegates will discuss such topics as "top themes for science innovation in the 21st century" and "prioritizing investment opportunities: the most promising emerging science and technology".
At the opening ceremony, Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, Mr. Zou Jiahua said that life sciences would help ease the dichotomy often faced by developing countries between development and environmental protection. Mr. Zou went on to say that the symposium itself was of great importance to the development of life sciences in Asia as well as improving people's living standards in developing countries.
President of the CCPIT, Mr. Yu Xiaosong said life sciences, as a forefront science, is attracting a great deal of attention around the world and has brought great business opportunities in the industrialization process. Mr. Yu was of the opinion that the current boom in life sciences and technology provided good opportunities for Asia to study high-tech successes and attract international capital to the area.
Vice Minister of Science and Technology, Mr. Li Xueyong said that the life sciences and technology industry is presently a focus of research and development in all countries and was becoming another economic growth corridor after the information and technology boom. Life sciences and technology is playing a more important role in technological innovation and in boosting economic and social development, Mr. Li said.
(Source: Xinhua)
China to Set Up 1st Overseas High-Tech Incubator in Singapore
The Chinese government has recently stated its intention to establish a high-tech incubator center in Singapore, its first such center outside China.
According to a statement released by Singapore's Economic Development Board, the center is to be called the China Innovation Center for High Technology Enterprises and will help China's science and technology-based enterprises internationalize. It is also hoped that the center will help to showcase Chinese technologies to the world market, spur the transfer of technological know-how into China and increase venture capital investment into Chinese companies.
(Source: Asian Economic News)
China Kicks Off Huge Offshore Oil and Gas Project
This week, the Chinese government announced that it would invest RMB 820 million (US $98.8 million) in a drive to promote high technologies to developing the Bohai Sea oilfields.
The Ministry of Science and Technology, China National Petrochemical Corporation and China National Offshore Oil Corporation signed an agreement on the project, which is on the list of China's high technology improvement program initiated in March 1986. According to the plan, by the end of 2005, a total of 500 million tons of oil reserves should be found, annual oil production from offshore oilfields will reach 21 million tons of crude oil and the recovery rate is expected to increase by one to five percent.
Mr. He Shenghou, a leading scientist working on the project, said that he and his fellow researchers would focus on precise exploration technology, advanced drilling technology, recovery improvement technology and engineering security technology.
The researchers are expected to develop a series of new techniques and equipment, 60 to 80 patents and software copyrights, and two to three high-tech bases for offshore oilfields, he said.
According to experts, the Bohai Sea has oil and gas reserves totaling 9.7 billion tons. The annual oil production in 2001 in the region reached 5.6 million tons.
(Source: Xinhua)
Chinese Official Outlines Measures to Attract Foreign Investment
At the recently held Chinese Business Enterprises' Science and Technology Innovation and Cooperation Exchange Meeting in Hangzhou, Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (MOFTEC) Vice-Minister, Wei Jianguo, disclosed several new policy measures to be adopted by China after its joining of WTO World Trade Organization (WTO) which is hope will attract more foreign investment.
The new policies include measures to:
- Encourage foreign investments in high-tech industries and technological innovations. China's relevant departments are in the midst of further improving and formulating laws and regulations pertaining to foreign-invested venture companies, the catalogue of foreign-invested high-tech industries, and foreign-invested research and development centers.
- Amplify the system of laws, rules and regulations to attract foreign investments, maintain uniformity in policies and increase the policies' transparency.
- Guide the direction and optimize the mix of foreign investment by taking steps to vigorously attract foreign investments in the development of electronic information, bioengineering, new materials, aeronautics and aerospace, and other high-tech industries. The government will encourage foreign investors to come to China and set up research and development centers and regional headquarters, actively attracting foreign investments in the development of petrochemical, chemical, building materials, and other infrastructure industries and in the utilization of advanced technologies and equipment to transform the machinery, light industrial, textile, and other traditional industries.
(Source: BBC Worldwide Monitoring)
Genesis Technology Group to bring Jacobson Resonance Enterprises to China and The Shanghai Technology Stock Exchange
In a recent announcement, the Genesis Technology Group, Inc. (Genesis), the first and so far only US-based Trust Member of the Shanghai Technology Stock (Property Rights) Exchange (STSE), said that it will bring Jacobson Resonance Enterprises (Jacobson), a leader in the development of magnetic resonance technology and products, to the STSE. Genesis will present Jacobson, its management, technologies and products to a targeted group of Chinese business leaders and investors who are interested in adopting Jacobson's technology for specific applications in China's Agriculture/Aquaculture, Food and Beverage, Building and Construction and Medical industries.
Dr. James Wang, CEO and President of Genisis, commented, "We are very excited to be bringing Jacobson Resonance to China. With 96 patents to its credit and a well-developed product line, Jacobson's proprietary technology is precisely the type of leading-edge technology that China requires in order to meet the growing demands of its society. For instance, Jacobson has the ability to deploy its technology to China's agricultural market for use in accelerating growth in vegetables and the development of more fruit by weight content. China remains the world's largest consumer of agricultural products, making agricultural science an area of paramount importance to the Chinese government."
(Source: Business Wire)
A Selection of Software-related Invention Patents Published in China
Application Number: 00105741
Publication Number: 1269559
Application Date: 00.04.10
Publication Date: 00.10.11
Title: Prediction method of specific stock prices in Chinese stock market
Intl. Class. Nr.: G06F 17/60
Applicant(s)Name: Lu Hong
Inventor(s) Name: Lu Hong
Legal Status: Publication
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for stock-market forecasting. The said method includes an investigation process and matched optimum dopester selection method. The said investigation process employs an operation process that can ensure that the participator can readily and vigorously declare the expected market of stock, and its optimum dopester selection method can reduce the forecasting deviation.
Application Number: 00121557
Publication Number: 1278630
Application Date: 00.08.11
Publication Date: 01.01.03
Title: Palm device for remote medical treatment
Intl. Class. Nr.: G06F 19/00
Applicant(s)Name: Sun Dewei
Inventor(s) Name: Sun Dewei
Legal Status: Publication
Abstract: The on-palm remote medial equipment comprises internet station, user's multi-media computer control software, on-plam remote medical equipment main machine, far-infrared detector, pulse condition monitoring portion, respiratory rate detector, body temp. It utilizes interconnected networks to collect information on patients and to make diagnosis. It also utilizes the output information to prescribe therapy, at the same time implementing a two-way audiovisual communication. Using computer and internet technology, it has a data conversion function from a multi-media computer acoustic card and I/O interface.
Application Number: 01101610
Publication Number: 1303206
Application Date: 01.01.16
Publication Date: 01.07.11
Title: Method for receiving large e-mails
Intl. Class. Nr.: H04L 29/06
Applicant(s)Name: Electronic Technology Co Ltd, Yingyeda Group ( Nanjing)
Inventor(s) Name: Lai Zhenxing; Wu Jingsong
Legal Status: Publication
Abstract: A method for receiving large e-mails via an electronic communication device includes the features: when the communication device is connected to a server over the Internet, the e-mail to be received is found by the POP3 layer of communication protocol and its head information is sent to the upper-layer module where the size of the e-mail is determine. If the e-mail meets the criteria, the e-mail is received in segments. Each segment is sent to the upper-layer module for storing in a correspondent storage area.
Application Number: 01104463
Publication Number: 1303068
Application Date: 01.02.27
Publication Date: 01.07.11
Title: Vehicle insurance claims settlement system
Intl. Class. Nr.: G06F 17/60; G06F 17/30
Applicant(s)Name: Yibao Network Technology Co Ltd (Shanghai)
Inventor(s) Name: Mo Yuanwu; Xu Jian; Lin Jianhong
Legal Status: Publication
Abstract: The vehicle insurance claims settlement system network is composed of an Internet interface, manager platform, check platform, loss determining platform, scene platform and database. Its stores images and documents relating to the accident and damaged vehicle collected on the scene platform and then transmitted to the database over the Internet. The said information is then used as the base, on which other units work.
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