News & Cases From China: July 2023

State Council Issues ‘2023 Outline for Building an Intellectual Powerhouse and the Implementation and Promotion Plan for the 14th Five-Year Plan'

Release Date: 27 July 2023

The Inter-Ministerial Joint Conference Office of the State Council for the Implementation of National Intellectual Property Strategy has issued a ‘2023 Outline for Building an Intellectual Powerhouse and the Implementation and Promotion Plan for the 14th Five-Year Plan' (the Plan). The Plan sets out seven key tasks for 2023: improving the intellectual property system; strengthening intellectual property protection; enhancing the operation mechanism of the intellectual property market; improving the quality of public intellectual property services; creating a favourable cultural and social environment for intellectual property innovation; actively participating in global intellectual property governance; and strengthening organizational security. The Plan includes 135 specific measures.