On November 24th, a party headed by Tian Lipu, director of the State Intellectual Property Bureau, came to the Yangtze River Pharmaceutical Group for research investigation. Tian was accompanied by Vice Mayor Lu Peimin, Warden Zhang Xiaobing, Xu Haoyu, Vice President of the Group, Ji Hongquan, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, etc. .
Tian Lipu’s party visited quality testing center of Group, and acknowledged the practice of introducing the world advanced testing equipment to escort quality and strictly guarantee quality of product during the entire process and in every aspect. In No. 2 oral liquid workshop, Tian Lipu was glad to see this workshop's production safety, zero market complaint and quality accidents for 342 days. He stressed, "medicine quality is extremely important, and cannot relax at any time." During the research and inspection exchange, Tian Lipu listened to report on the Group’s innovative development on intellectual property protection and patent technology Standing before the display frame for patent certificates of the Group and seeing one by one patent certificate issued by himself, he asked for economic and social benefits after implementing some patent in detail and spoke highly of achievements that the Group has attached great importance to innovation and intellectual property work.
Tian Lipu pointed out that institutions at all levels of the State Intellectual Property Bureau will encourage, support, and increase the service security from multiple angles, speed up the patent declaration process, and practically escort enterprises’ innovation and development. He encouraged YRPG to make persistent efforts to introduce more technical patents, focus on improving gold content of technology patent, and meanwhile, technology patent declaration should go out of the country to face the world.
For many years, the Group attached great importance to intellectual property rights management, and put the intellectual property rights in the enterprise management agenda, enabling it to become an important content of the enterprise technological progress and the establishment of a modern enterprise system. The Group has established the intellectual property department, established and perfected rules and regulations for the enterprise, formulated a strategic system of the intellectual property rights, which gave priority to encourage invention strategy and was supplemented by defensive strategy. Every year, special funds budget for the intellectual property work was over 5 million Yuan.
The Group has already accumulatively declared invention patents of nearly 100 pieces, international patent (PCT) 4 pieces, more than 80 pieces patent of appearance design, 26 authorized Chinese invention patents, 82 patents of appearance design, and 3 PCT patent authorized in 15 countries or regions. The Group has been awarded Advanced Unit in Intellectual Property Protection, Pilot Unit of National Patent Work, one of the Top Ten Brands Enterprise in China, one of Top Ten Inventive Enterprises in China one after another in Jiangsu Province; main trademark "huyou" has been praised as Chinese Renowned Trademark; patent Formula Technology of Jingqianping Granule has filled domestic gap and awarded national excellent invention patent.