Recently, supported by the Shanghai Municipal Market Supervision Administration, proposed, centralized and organized by the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Science and Technology, and directed drafting by Shanghai East Scientific and Technological Achievements Transformation Co., Ltd., the two Shanghai local standards, namely the Technological Transfer – Regulations for Competition Intelligence Analysis Services (DB31/T1283—2021) and the Technological Transfer – Regulations for Technical Evaluation (DB31/T1284—2021), will be implemented as of May 1, 2021.

Said two Standards represent an important measure for implementing the national and municipal scientific and technological achievements transformation systems, as well as the first attempt to establish Shanghai’s municipal technological transfer standard system.

Said Technological Transfer – Regulations for Technical Evaluation is Shanghai’s first regulation for technical evaluation. Directed by the National Eastern Tech-transfer Center, Watson & Band was honored to participate in the drafting of said Regulation together with a dozen of other IP services institutions in Shanghai.

About the Technological Transfer – Regulations for Technical Evaluation

During the services of technical evaluation on key sectors in technological transfer, due to the lack of united regulations on the acquisition of information and the evaluation and analysis methods, considerable discrepancy may exist in the technical evaluation reports issued by different service institutions, in which circumstance the said Standard, based on successful practice and experience concluded within the area, proposes to formulate regulations on technical evaluation in the technological transfer services and thereby provide safeguard for the fair transaction between the parties of the technological transfer.

Said Standard incorporates provisions on the requirements for technical evaluation, the indicators and the evaluation report, and summarizes 5 first-class indicators and 20 second-class indicators of the technical evaluation indicators system. Evaluation is accordingly conducted in terms of five aspects, namely, technical nature of the evaluation target, market economy and risks, IP rights and sociality. The Standard also extracts contents of the report structure and elaborates on the matters involved in the evaluation conclusion and risk reminder chapters of the evaluation report.

The direct user group of said Standard includes technological transfer services institutions and professional technical institutions, and the expanded user group further covers all relevant parties of the technological transfer. Said relevant parties are so widespread so that their needs for the technical evaluation cannot be exactly consistent. In such a circumstance, the Standard suggests that the evaluation institutions carry out the evaluation work based on different scenarios and requirements.