At the “Global IP Protection and Innovation Forum”, a subforum of the 2023 Zhongguancun Forum, China’s first metaverse industrial patent pool was officially launched. The pool currently contains over 170 patents, with 53 of them being newly available for licensing.

Relying on the national special project for cultivating and operating high-value smart sensor IPs undertaken by Beijing IP, the Metaverse Industrial Patent Pool is dedicated to advancing innovation in the metaverse and related technical fields, which is also a priority of Beijing.

The metaverse is an immersive-experience technology that integrates the physical and data worlds to create a human-centered world parallel to the real world. Being an important direction of future industrial development, it uses a wide range of new practical technologies, such as perception, sensing, blockchain and artificial intelligence, to effectively transcend temporal and spatial barriers and boost the inclusivity of limited resources.

The Metaverse Industrial Patent Pool will give priority to patents from leading enterprises, cutting-edge SMEs, prominent universities and research institutes that are influential in the industry and involved in the formulation of industrial standards. It aims to collect patents in key areas of the metaverse ecosystem. The patent pool will realize the commercial returns and member benefits by leveraging standardized licensing terms, preferential patent licensing fees, and industrialized operation mechanisms to form a joint force for protecting IP. This will promote metaverse commercialization and application, sustainable innovation of members, and effective use of patented technology.

From People’s Daily

May 30th, 2023