Sichuan: Universities and other institutions and inventors can share the patent right in a ratio of 3: 7.
Sichuan will gradually push forward the reform of mixed ownership of post scientific and technological achievements from colleges and universities
Summarize a set of models that can be popularized in the whole country, and strive to become a result of Sichuan’s comprehensive innovation reform experiment.
The reform will first be promoted in provincial universities such as Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Chengdu University.
On the basis of Southwest Jiaotong University’s successful exploration, our province will comprehensively push forward the reform of mixed ownership of job-related scientific and technological achievements, and fully release the R&D and achievement transformation vitality of job inventors or their teams. This is what the reporter learned on September 20 at the annual meeting of the 2016 Qiaozhi Elite Kebohang and the Sichuan Overseas Chinese Federation Special Expert Committee.
Tian Yunhui, deputy director of the Provincial Department of Science and Technology, introduced that summing up the experience of Southwest Jiaotong University, our province will introduce policies to promote the reform of mixed ownership of job-related scientific and technological achievements in the province, and realize the confirmation of rights before patent registration. Institutions such as universities and inventors can divide the relevant rights and interests into 3: 7. "Summarize a set of models that can be promoted nationwide, and strive to become a result of the Sichuan system’s comprehensive innovation reform experiment." "It is necessary to force the corresponding laws and regulations to make adjustments through the results of a series of tests." Zhao Xin, director of the Policy and Regulation Department of the Provincial Science and Technology Department, said that next, the reform will first be promoted in the provincial universities in our province, such as Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Chengdu University, and gradually pushed across the province.
At the beginning of this year, Southwest Jiaotong University issued the "Regulations on Patent Management of Southwest Jiaotong University", which made it clear for the first time in China that service inventors have the ownership of service scientific and technological achievements. The regulations are clear: the school and service inventors sign an award agreement on the ownership of patent rights and the right to apply for patents, stipulating or agreeing to share the patent rights at a ratio of 3: 7.
"The effect brought by the reform far exceeds the effect of simply increasing the investment in scientific research." As the beneficiary of the reform, Huang Nan, distinguished professor of Southwest Jiaotong University, told the reporter that the team he led developed a series of service invention patents for "new cardiovascular stents". Under the new policy, the company formed by the inventor team and the National University Science Park jointly held the patent right, promoted the transformation of achievements, and introduced the angel fund. "Without the reform, either the achievements are difficult to transform or the patents are lost, which is a loss."
"Reform can fully stimulate the research and development vitality of researchers in universities and research institutes and the transformation efficiency of scientific and technological achievements." Deng Shaoping, president of Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences, believes that there are still many problems in how to define whether state-owned assets are value-added or lost when it comes to the adjustment of relevant laws and regulations. (Reporter Longjun Li)