| Macao Science Press · Intellectual Property Center 

   We firmly believe that academic achievements should not be confined to paper publications alone; rather, they should be transformed into intellectual property and tangible applications that generate greater social and economic value. With this vision, we established the Macao Science Press Intellectual Property Center, which has built and allied with a professional patent team across Mainland China, Macau, the United States, the European Union, and other regions. Since its inception, the center has handled over 18,000 patent applications, gaining increasing recognition from clients through outstanding expertise and service quality. Dedicated to bridging academia, industry, and research institutions, our center focuses on the commercialization of patents and the integration of research, industry, and innovation. We strive to bring cutting-edge research from laboratories to the market efficiently, fostering technological innovation and industrial advancement.
   In the field of industry-academia-research collaboration, we actively integrate high-quality resources to facilitate in-depth exchanges between universities, research institutions, and enterprises. By identifying key challenges in research and industrial development, we support the R&D and incubation of innovative technologies. For example, in the environmental protection sector, we facilitated a collaboration between a local university’s environmental science laboratory and a wastewater treatment enterprise. The university’s research team had been dedicated to developing novel wastewater treatment technologies, while the enterprise contributed its extensive experience in engineering practice and market operations. Through joint efforts, they successfully developed a highly efficient and energy-saving wastewater treatment system, which has now been implemented in multiple wastewater treatment plants. This breakthrough significantly improves treatment efficiency and reduces energy consumption, injecting strong momentum into the environmental industry and accelerating the transformation of scientific research into productive forces.
   Regarding patent commercialization, we leverage our professional and experienced intellectual property team to provide a comprehensive, one-stop service—ranging from patent evaluation and value assessment to identifying suitable commercialization pathways and corporate partnerships. Through market-driven operations, we successfully transform patented technologies into high-value commercial products and services, maximizing the economic benefits of innovation. For instance, in the case of an intelligent agricultural irrigation system, our team conducted a thorough evaluation and recognized its immense potential for modern agricultural applications. We then collaborated closely with an agritech company to optimize the patented technology and develop a market-ready product. Today, this smart irrigation system is widely deployed across farmlands, precisely controlling water usage and irrigation schedules. Not only has this innovation significantly improved water resource efficiency, but it has also enhanced crop yield and quality, boosting agricultural productivity and profitability. The success of this project has created a win-win situation for inventors, enterprises, and society, effectively driving synergies between technological innovation and industrial upgrading.

 | Intellectual Property Center · Service List 

Services Include:

• Patent Applications:
  • China Patents (Design, Utility Model, Invention Patents);
  • PCT Patents (United States, Japan, etc.);
  • Paris Convention Patents (Luxembourg, Belgium, United States, Italy, etc.);
• Other Applications: Trademarks, Software Copyrights, Standards Drafting & Publication, Third-Party Certification & Commissioned Testing;
• Patent Planning: Extracting key protection elements based on clients' research, Drafting and filing patent portfolios
• Technology Commercialization: Full-cycle process from prototype → testing → certification, Obtaining evaluation certificates for commercialization
• Key Focus Areas: Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Healthcare & Medical Technologies, Automation & Artificial Intelligence, New Materials & Advanced Manufacturing Processes

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 | It is Best to Apply for a Patent Before Publishing Research Results 

   Scientific research results are the crystallization of the hard work of the majority of scientific and technological workers, it is not only an important force to promote scientific and technological progress, but also has a certain commercial value and social value. We suggest that scientific research results should be applied for patents before publication. Scientific research results include, but are not limited to, inventions, utility models and designs, etc., only in line with the protection of the Patent Law, including: invention refers to the technical solution to solve the problem creatively in the technical solution; utility model refers to the improvement of the existing products or methods, to meet the requirements of practicability, and there is a significant difference with the existing technology; design refers to the shape, pattern, color, texture and material of the product, etc., the new design. Design refers to the new design of a product in terms of shape, pattern, color, texture and material.

Advantages of Applying for Patent:

• Patent can protect the achievements of innovation and encourage enterprises to invest more efforts in innovation;
• Enhances the added value of products and market competitiveness, which can help enterprises obtain better market position and higher income;
• It improves the intellectual property heritage of enterprises;

   Scientific and technological innovation is an important force in promoting social development and economic growth. Applying for a patent can provide strong protection for innovative scientific and technological achievements and enhance their commercial value and market competitiveness. Therefore, scientific and technological achievements can be patented, but attention should be paid to the application discipline and compliance with laws and regulations on intellectual property protection, so that patent protection can become an effective tool for scientific and technological innovation and economic development.

The Process of Applying for Patent:

• The application for a patent needs to follow a certain process, and this process needs to be carried out in accordance with the prescribed procedures;
• The general process includes the following steps Firstly, the originality search, which requires the search of relevant technical literature, patent documents, etc. that have been disclosed in the technical field;
• Next is the preparation of the application documents, including the patent application, specification, claims and drawings;
• Next is the filing of the application, in which the application documents are submitted to the Patent Office of the State Intellectual Property Office;
• Finally, it is for the Patent Office to examine the application documents, which includes assessing the conformity, novelty and inventiveness of the application content;

Notes:

• Confidentiality measures: before applying for a patent, the confidentiality of the technical results should be fully protected to avoid disclosure;
• Time limit for application: timely application for patent must be made within one year after the disclosure of technical achievements, otherwise the opportunity to apply will be lost;
• Avoid infringement: patent application, examination and right protection need to follow relevant laws and regulations to avoid infringing others' intellectual property rights, and especially pay attention to not infringing the rights of existing patents;

 | Academic Patents and Career Advancement  

   Academic patents are patents granted for inventions produced in academic research, and are characterized by exclusivity, territoriality, and temporality, as well as some unique features :

• Inventor is usually a researcher in a university or scientific research institution; 
• Technical field is usually basic or applied science; 
• Application and examination procedures are usually more rigorous;
• Term of protection is usually longer, more economic and social value;

   Each title series has gradually changed from “mandatory” papers to “optional” achievements, and established a “menu-type” evaluation index system. Many hospitals have begun to pay more attention to patents, such as the Naval Medical University, for example, the school will be patent-related indicators into the senior title evaluation standards, the first responsible person to obtain a patent authorization for an invention is equivalent to the publication of a SCI article. Patents are mainly divided into utility model patents and invention patents, generally invention patents are more points than new patents, but the difficulty will also be greater. Generally speaking, the invention patent can add up to 20 points, and the utility model can add 7 to 8 points.

 | Academic Patent Cultivation Process  

   
The low rate of invention authorization in the field of biomedical patents is mainly due to the lack of patent innovativeness and the difficulty of providing effective evidential materials for specific problems:

• Hospitals and other units do not have the conditions for patent practice of inventions;
• Lack of professional engineer team assistance;
• Inability to provide reliable data or physical objects for proof;