On October 9, 2025, Tang Yingzhi, Deputy Director of the Yixing Market Supervision and Administration Bureau, Fu Wentao, Deputy Director of the Environmental Science and Technology Park Market Supervision and Administration Bureau, and Min Xiao, Director of the Intellectual Property Department of the Yixing Market Supervision and Administration Bureau, visited Lingzhi Equipment Co., Ltd. to conduct an on-site investigation of the company's intellectual property museum. The company held an in-depth discussion with Ling Jianjun, the founder of the company and a foreign academician of the Russian Academy of Engineering, on four core topics: the cultivation of high-value patents, the transformation and protection of intellectual property achievements, the application for the creation of national intellectual property demonstration enterprises, and the strategic layout of overseas markets. The collaboration between the government and the enterprise has laid a solid foundation for the company's innovative development and global expansion.

Intellectual Property Advancement: From "Advantage" to "Demonstration", Museums Witness the Closed Loop of "Research and Development - Transformation - Protection"

In the Lingzhi Equipment Intellectual Property Museum, the research team gained a direct understanding of the company's patent layout process and core achievements in the fields of environmental protection equipment and water treatment through the walls full of patent certificates, technology transformation case display boards and physical models. The museum clearly showcases over 200 core technology accumments and more than 80 invention patents of the company, serving as a direct reflection of the company's intellectual property strength. The relevant person in charge of Lingzhi Equipment simultaneously reported the progress of intellectual property work: As a national intellectual property advantage enterprise, the company has always adhered to technological innovation for nearly three decades, forming a complete closed loop of "research and development - transformation - protection".

At the end of technology transfer, the SDD new low-carbon sewage treatment technology and equipment developed by it have been evaluated by academicians and experts as reaching the international leading level. It has been applied in many domestic sewage treatment plants, with the construction efficiency increased by 60% compared to traditional solutions, contributing to the green and low-carbon transformation of the industry.

On the end of intellectual property protection, enterprises build a "protective net" for patent technologies by standardizing patent management processes and collaborating with regulatory authorities, thus avoiding infringement risks for market expansion both at home and abroad.

At present, the enterprise is making every effort to promote the application for the title of National intellectual property Demonstration enterprise. It plans to further improve the full-chain management system of intellectual property based on its existing patent layout experience, and set industry benchmarks in terms of technological innovation, industrialization of achievements, and enhancement of brand value.

Overseas strategy implementation: Over a hundred PCT patent applications lay the foundation, empowering the layout in the Middle East and Southeast Asia

In response to the expansion of the international market, Academician Ling Jianjun, in combination with the overseas technology planning display boards in the museum, focused on introducing the company's overseas strategy. The company focuses on the global demand for water resource governance, especially targeting the Middle East and Southeast Asia as key expansion regions. It plans to apply for over a hundred PCT patents in the fields of seawater desalination and sewage treatment, aiming to build an overseas technological barrier with high-value intellectual property rights.

As a preliminary practice of overseas layout, the EPCO wastewater treatment project constructed by the enterprise in the tanning park of Bangladesh has been successfully accepted by the local government (with a project amount of 80 million US dollars). The core technology and engineering experience of this project have been included in the overseas case exhibition area of the museum, providing important support for customized solutions in the subsequent Middle East and Southeast Asia markets. Academician Ling Jianjun stated that by integrating PCT patent applications with the core technologies displayed in museums and the practical experiences of previous projects, it will accelerate the market penetration of enterprises in regions such as Saudi Arabia and Vietnam, and promote the internationalization of China's environmental protection technologies and equipment.

Regulatory empowerment and protection: National-level express maintenance centers offer "full-cycle protection"

After visiting the museum and learning about over 200 patent achievements, Deputy Director Tang Yingzhi expressed his full support for Lingzhi Equipment's high-value patent cultivation, transformation and protection achievements as well as its application plan for the creation of a demonstration enterprise. She made it clear that Yixing has established the Yixing (Ceramics) Intellectual Property Rapid Protection Center - this center is a national-level platform approved by the National Intellectual Property Administration and officially accepted and put into operation in October 2024. It is also the first national-level intellectual property rapid maintenance center in Jiangsu Province and the first in Wuxi City for the ceramic field, capable of providing enterprises with a full-chain service of "rapid confirmation of rights + rapid protection of rights".

The authorization period for design patents can be compressed to 7 to 15 working days, facilitating the rapid protection of enterprises' innovative technologies.

Accept intellectual property rights reports and complaints, mediate disputes, and make administrative rulings on patent infringement disputes. It also collaborates with courts, public security departments, etc. to establish an "administrative + judicial" collaborative protection mechanism to efficiently handle domestic and international rights protection demands.

Deputy Director Fu Wentao and Section Chief Min Xiao, in light of their respective areas of responsibility, further stated that they will rely on the resources of the Quick Maintenance Center to provide precise services for enterprises in areas such as patent layout optimization and infringement risk early warning, thereby enhancing the intellectual property management level of enterprises.

Government-enterprise collaboration: Jointly Building a New Pattern of High-Quality Development Driven by Intellectual Property Rights

This research took the Lingzhi Equipment Intellectual Property Museum as a window to gain a deep understanding of the company's innovation achievements, achieving in-depth interaction between the government and enterprises in the field of "high-value patents + transformation protection + global layout". In the future, the market supervision system of Yixing City will continue to rely on resources such as the national-level express Maintenance center to assist Lingzhi Equipment in accelerating the application process for the creation of a national intellectual property demonstration enterprise. Lingzhi Equipment will also take domestic technological achievements as its foundation, PCT patent application as its engine, and the Middle East and Southeast Asia markets as its targets, to create a development model of "domestic demonstration leadership + international market breakthrough", providing replicable practical experience for the intellectual property operation and industrial internationalization development of Yixing enterprises.