Over the years, tisco has attached great importance to intellectual property management and continuously improved the intellectual property management mechanism, playing an important role in creating a first-class innovation ecology and accelerating the pace of high-quality transformation. By the end of 2019, tisco had applied for more than 4,000 patents and authorized more than 3,000, and achieved remarkable results in intellectual property management.
For a long time, taigang advocates "new tend, smell the smell, with new winner" innovative ideas and "encourage innovation, tolerance of failure, opposed to hold" culture of innovation, and actively build diversified innovation platform, through all kinds of talents growth channel, formed to a technology leader, technical backbone, a line worker participation of grand innovation team, emerged a large number of with independent intellectual property rights of technology, process and product. In 2019 alone, 12 scientific and technological innovation achievements of tisco won the provincial and ministerial science and technology awards, and the scientific and technological innovation has been fruitful and the innovative development has become a trend.
Taking effective measures to strengthen the management of intellectual property rights is the basic premise for accelerating the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and also an important support for the development strategy of enterprises. Development in recent years, to adapt to the transformation of high quality requirements, taigang in overhaul management on the basis of the "patent, issued and implemented the measures for the administration of the proprietary technology, and gradually establish a distinctive patents and proprietary technology, intellectual property management mode of" double channels, independent innovation achievements protection continues to increase, the overall channel to expand innovation, emerged a large number of outstanding patent, gradually higher proportions and invention patent for utility model patents, it also marks the taiyuan patent quality improved significantly, improve the original innovation ability.
In 2019, tisco completed the application of 216 new patents, among which 124 were invention patents, accounting for 57%. The proportion of invention patents remained above 55% for five consecutive years. Two patents, including "a method of smelting stainless steel with molten iron as the main raw material", won the first and third prizes of the first shanxi provincial patent award respectively. In the "23rd national invention exhibition", the patents exhibited by tisco won 13 awards, including 3 gold MEDALS. In the research of patent early warning, retrieval and novelty search carried out by professional institutions on related process technologies, tisco coordinated with the national and provincial intellectual property offices to start the examination and approval process of high-value patents and all of them were authorized, which played a role of escort and professional support for the enterprise's product development and key projects. In addition, tisco and its domestic counterparts jointly initiated the establishment of "China intellectual property development alliance metallurgy professional committee", and successfully passed the review of "national intellectual property advantage enterprises" jointly organized by the state intellectual property office and shanxi provincial intellectual property office.
As for the illegal and infringing ACTS of producing and selling fake and inferior products in the name of tisco, tisco insists on the combination of "fighting and preventing" to safeguard its own brand image and the rights and interests of consumers. In terms of "fighting", the company has set up a brand marketing management office, actively established regular visits and cooperation mechanisms with relevant government departments such as public security, industry and commerce, customs and quality inspection, etc., and issued timely anti-counterfeiting and rights protection announcements through various media to safeguard rights and interests by legal means. In terms of "prevention", tisco formulated and implemented the "trademark management measures", organized regular trainings on trademark laws and regulations and basic knowledge of trademark protection, comprehensively applied anti-counterfeiting measures to the "product quality certificate", and actively participated in the "longteng" action of the national customs, forming a comprehensive application protection system. Tisco has won the honorary titles of "national intellectual property pilot unit", "national patent work exchange station", "national patent system advanced collective" and so on.