Northern Trust attends IP Finance Seminar
Recently, the Chengdu Intellectual Property Finance Ecosystem Forum with the theme of “Industry-Intellectual Integration, Ecological City Development” was held in Chengdu. Northern Trust was invited to attend the meeting and participated in the roundtable talks as a representative of the trust company, discussing and exchanging ideas with guests from various industries to promote the development of intellectual property finance.
Intellectual property trust finance plays an important role in serving the real economy and promoting the development of the intellectual property industry chain. It is an important means to assist and enhance the marketization of intellectual property. Intellectual property finance widely covers a wide range of service models such as intellectual property pledge financing, intellectual property financial leasing, intellectual property insurance, intellectual property funds, intellectual property trusts, and intellectual property securitization. In recent years, it has achieved remarkable results in serving intellectual property. According to the meeting, the national patent and trademark pledge financing amount reached 853.99 billion yuan in 2023, a year-on-year increase of 75.4%, benefiting 37,000 enterprises; 49 intellectual property securitization products were issued, with a cumulative issuance scale of 8.694 billion yuan. Innovative models of intellectual property finance continue to emerge, such as supply chain intellectual property securitization, patent licensing intellectual property securitization, “data asset” pledge loans, “copyright + finance” ABN projects, and CB products guaranteed by intellectual property. The meeting released the “Intellectual Property Finance White Paper 2023” and the “Intellectual Property Finance Case Collection”, which conducted a detailed study and discussion on the full life cycle services, value assessment methods, and collaborative service mechanisms of intellectual property finance. The “Case Collection” brings together a variety of innovative practice cases of financial services for intellectual property.
The intellectual property service trust under the trust model can serve the entire life cycle of intellectual property rights creation, transformation and operation, rights maintenance, and intergenerational inheritance, and give full play to the institutional advantages of trust assets independence, risk isolation, security and stability, and comprehensive flexibility. It provides services such as intellectual property operation trusteeship, transaction execution, execution supervision, fund settlement, and income distribution, and has important intellectual property implementation and commercialization value. With the asset isolation and property management functions of the trust, centralized trusteeship and operation of patents have enhanced the stability of growing companies and improved the conversion efficiency of intellectual property rights.
Northern Trust has always taken serving the real economy as its mission, and has continuously explored and taken the lead in the field of intellectual property trust. In 2023, the company took the lead in establishing Tianjin’s first intellectual property trust – “Northern Trust Rixin Tiangong Kaiwu Intellectual Property Service Trust”, and established an intellectual property trust based on the patent results of a professor’s research team that was the first to settle in Tiankai Park at Nankai University, opening up an innovative model for intellectual property trust services for college research teams. After the success of the first order, the company has forged ahead bravely, further strengthening cooperation with relevant institutions such as the government, colleges, and intellectual property offices, promoting the replicability and mass production of intellectual property service trusts, and broadening the depth and breadth of services.
This conference was guided by the Sichuan Provincial Market Supervision Administration and the Chengdu Municipal Market Supervision Administration, and co-organized by Chengdu Shengshi Puyi Technology Co., Ltd. and other companies, bringing together more than 100 representatives from government departments, financial institutions, intellectual property service agencies, and high-tech enterprises in the High-tech Zone. Northern Trust will actively participate in the exchange and research of intellectual property finance, continue to enhance the professional capabilities of intellectual property financial services, and continuously inject more financial vitality into the development of the real economy.
