Hong Kong plans to implement the "patent box" tax preferential measures to accelerate the promotion of innovation and intellectual property trade activities.
Chen Maobo, the director of the Hong Kong Financial Secretary, said on the blog that Hong Kong will implement the "patent box" tax discount, and the tax rate of the joint venture profit generated by the patent will be16.5%was reduced to 5%to encourage the industry to actively carry out more R & D activities, create more market potential intellectual property rights, and accelerate the promotion of innovation and intellectual property trade activities.
Chen Maobo previewed that the draft relevant regulations will be submitted to the Legislative Council on Wednesday (10th), and said that the official will strive to complete the legislative work as soon as possible.
He wrote: "In the past, when we communicated with many Chuangke companies, they noticed that one of the main reasons for their decision to settle in Hong Kong was to think that Hong Kong's legal system, rule of law and professional services, and right -hand, and right -handedThe protection of intellectual property rights allows them to be protected by patent technology and products when expanding their international business, which is good for them to develop more new applications by authorizing other enterprises to use the "patent operation" model>
Chen Maobo believes that the system of consolidating and improving the protection of intellectual property rights in Hong Kong, and even promoting the management, commercialization and trade of intellectual property rights can make Hong Kong play an advantage and the high value -added part of the entire founding of the founding of the founding of the founding of the founding of the founding of the founding of the founding of the founding of the founding of the founding section.
Chen Maobo said that in order to further accelerate the development of this area, he put forward multiple measures in a new financial budget to accelerate the construction of the "Regional Intellectual Property Trade Center" in Hong Kong.In order to support scientific researchers to commercialize more technologies at different stages, the budget also proposes to build a technology and innovation support center for the establishment of a world intellectual property organization in Hong Kong.It is estimated that after the center is put into operation, it can provide patent -related high -quality information and services for Hong Kong enterprises and entrepreneurs, assist them in creating, protecting, managing and commodity their intellectual property rights, and promoting intellectual property trade.
He also wrote that in addition to promoting creative intellectual property creation and transactions through the "Creative Intelligence Program", the Hong Kong Trade Development Bureau is also working to optimize the "Asian Intellectual Property Trading Platform" and join the relevant relatedThe content of creative property rights is to promote creative copyright transactions and promote the industrialization of literary and artistic creativity.Hong Kong will also study and improve the copyright regulations. In response to the latest development of artificial intelligence, it will provide appropriate guarantees for copyrights. Consultation will be conducted within this year.
In terms of cooperation with mainland China, Chen Maobo said that the SAR government will continue to work closely with the China National Intellectual Property Office in many ways, including strengthening the training of patent reviewers.The SAR Government will also promote the exchanges and cooperation in the field of different intellectual property rights in the field of intellectual property, including convenient cross -border application for the protection of various intellectual property rights, and promoting Hong Kong intellectual property professional services in different intellectual property categories.Enterprises in the district conduct intellectual property trade.
