State Intellectual Property Office: Improve the protection system for new fields and new business models to further stimulate industrial innovation.

Journalists learned today that the National Intellectual Property Administration has announced a decision to amend the "Patent Examination Guidelines." It mentioned the need to improve the protection system for new fields and formats, further stimulating industrial innovation. First, plant variety definitions are clarified to expand the scope of patentable objects, forming a reasonable and effective connection with the new plant variety system to enhance intellectual property protection in the seed industry. Second, considerations and judgments regarding the ethics of artificial intelligence are increased, creative examination examples are provided, and writing requirements for application documents are clarified to meet the needs of the development of artificial intelligence technology. Third, special provisions for the examination of patents for bitstream are added, specifying the circumstances in which patent rights can be granted to adapt to the new situation of the rapid development of the streaming media industry.