TISCO has been stressing intellectual property since many years ago. The company has set a complete management mechanism of intellectual property right which plays a significant role in the enterprise transformational development into innovative, ecological and high-quality direction. By the end of 2019, the company has filed application of 4,000 patents, with over 3,000 being authorized.
For a very long period, TISCO advocates the innovation concept of “being glad to hear new things, being motivated by new things and being competitive with new things”, and the innovation culture that “encourages innovation, allows failure and opposes stereotype”. The company constructs various platforms for innovation, enables kinds of talent cultivation practices, establishes a grand team which is consisted of technical experts, technicians and operators, and presents a batch of technologies, processes and products with independent intellectual property rights. In the sole year of 2019, TISCO had 12 technological innovation achievements that were granted with science and technology rewards of province and ministry level.
Effective measures and reinforced management of intellectual property are the precondition to speed up commercialization of technological fruits as well as the bolster to strategically develop enterprises. In recent years, facing the requirement of high quality transformational development, TISCO made a fundamental revision to its Management Method of Patents, based on which a Management Method of Knowhow was published. Since then, a intellectual property management mode covering both patents and knowhow was gradually shaped. It brings a more substantial protection and a wider access to innovation by all. The result is remarkable --- a big amount of outstanding patents and a growing ratio of invent patents compared to practical patents. The company has made a progressive step in strengthening its innovation capability.
In 2019, TISCO filed application of 216 new patents, including 124 invent patents, equal to 57% of the total. It was the fifth consecutive year for the ratio of invent patent being over 55%. Among all the patents, two were granted the first prize and third prize in the 1st Shanxi Province Patent Awards; and in the 23rd National Invent Expo, TISCO was granted 3 golden prizes and 10 other prizes. TISCO was authorized a fast approval access for high vale patent by the state and provincial Intellectual Property Offices, essentially escorting and supporting the product and project development of the company. TISCO and its peers also jointly launched a “Metallurgical Committee of China Intellectual Property Development Alliance”. And the company was approved by both state and provincial intellectual property offices as a leading enterprise in aspect of intellectual property.
The company is actively cracking down on the infringement behavior of producing and marketing fake TISCO products, to protect the brand image and consumer’s interest. On the one hand, the company sets up a dedicated office to pay regular visit to and establish cooperation with the government authorities, publish infringement notices on various media, and pursue legal procedures when necessary. On the other hand, the company stipulates and implements Brand and Label Management Method, organizes from time to time trainings on laws and rules regarding label and brand protection, applies anti-counterfeiting measures on Product Quality Certificate, participates into the “Dragon Action” campaigned by the State Customs to cracking down counterfeits. TISCO were titled with the “pilot unit of national intellectual property work”, “exchange station for national intellectual property work”, and “advanced unit in intellectual property system in China”.