Focus on the ancient town of lighting industry LED hard rights road

Stroll the ancient town of Guangdong, Zhongshan, the streets of the lighting shop everywhere. Bright lights, beautiful shapes, like the beautiful sea of lights, people can enjoy, select. From 1982 to now, the town has become the world's largest professional lighting market and domestic lighting professional production base and wholesale market, is worthy of the name "China lighting capital". Although the old town lighting lively, but many shopkeepers will be posted on the wall, no pictures of the logo, if the guests look at a while, the owner's vigilance will be increased by one point.

Why is this?

Lighting products replacement fast, a lot of new lighting industry products released less than a week, it was imitated and spread to peer competition. Zhongshan Guzhen Town Party committee member He Shengqiang came to reporters on intellectual property research, said at that time because of fear of infringement of intellectual property rights, many shopkeepers mood is very helpless. "Both hope that customers come to the customer and like thieves, and now is not the same, the owner can not be afraid, and even though the look. "

Let the owner and customer benefit is Chinese Zhongshan (lighting) intellectual property rights center quickly, this is the first in town level administrative region, for a single industry intellectual property rights center, since its establishment in 2011 to explore a new mechanism for a "fast, fast, fast authorized rights, right to the new requirements of independent innovation has become increasingly active in the industry.

Lighting modeling is the focus of customer selection. Zhongshan Qilang lighting market limited company invested 14 million yuan each year for product development. 2011, Qilang "swan head" other series of LED lamps in the international award-winning, on the market more and more fire. Hot Swan light attracted a lot of copycat copycat, a time on the market a variety of cottage Swan flurry.

In order to meet the needs of the rapid rights of enterprises, Zhongshan Intellectual Property Office bold innovation, to take the form of entrustment, the patent administrative law enforcement authority commissioned by the center. At the same time, Zhongshan City People's court established a circuit court in the center of intellectual property, patent administrative law enforcement and judicial to the company's "factory gate", and the implementation of evidence recognition and dispute mediation before, so that the patent infringement cases closed six months from the original time greatly shortened to within one month.

"Rights center after the establishment of a company with sales of Qilang seagull first infringe their intellectual property rights, to our center. Center responsible person, after mediation, the two sides finally reached a settlement agreement. Then, the additional Qilang complaint unit 27, the joint cultural rights center integrated market enforcement brigade special enforcement action, on the market of counterfeit behavior were investigated, the protection of intellectual property rights of qilang.

"This is a great inspiration to our independent innovation. We applied for 28 patents in 2011, up to 60 in 2012, an increase of 114%. 2012 total output value of 281 million yuan, of which the output value of patent products accounted for 100 million yuan. "Qilang Town Center Manager Sun Nana said.

According to statistics, this year 1-7 month activist center a total of 290 cases, closed down in 243 cases, the closing rate of 83.79. Among them, 182 successful mediation, mediation end of the case, in the case of a total of 47 cases in the case of mediation in the case of mediation in the case of the end of the case, the case of mediation in the. In addition, the central mediation is not transferred to the court to deal with 27 cases.

In addition to the rapid of rights, the center has also set up a rapid authorization, right through the docking mechanism, and intellectual property management departments at all levels, sharing "China design patent intelligent retrieval system for retrieving related patents, and preliminary examination of the application materials. Using this system, enterprises can quickly identify similar patents, so as to avoid the patent trap".

A series of measures to greatly simplify the process of patent applications to stimulate the pace of independent innovation. Companies continue to develop new technologies, new materials, the development of new products, the industry to the smile curve extended at both ends to accelerate, high-end lighting endless. According to statistics, in 2011 the number of patent applications and authorized patents were 2553, 1808, respectively, in 2012, a total of 3826, an annual growth rate of up to 49.96%.

Today, Guzhen lighting and LED lighting products not only in the domestic market in the same industry accounted for 60% of the share, but also enjoy high popularity and reputation abroad, the products are exported to Hong Kong and Macao, Southeast Asia, Europe, Japan and the United States.

Experts pointed out that the lighting rights center and expand mobilize various resources, give full play to the role in promoting the transformation of intellectual property rights and upgrading of local industries, a new mechanism to explore on the intensive industry how to carry out the protection of intellectual property rights has a demonstration effect.