Ms. Meng registered six software copyrights, enabling her company to obtain High and New Technology Enterprise certification
Ms. Meng was the head of R&D at an industrial internet company. The company had operated for four years and developed several systems in-house, including equipment monitoring, energy-consumption analysis, and fault warning. Because the team had focused mainly on product delivery, however, it had never organized its intellectual property systematically.
In 2024, the company prepared to apply for High and New Technology Enterprise certification. A preliminary assessment found that its R&D expenditure, staffing structure, and business revenue largely met the requirements, but it did not have enough intellectual property. The names of its existing software also differed from those used in sales contracts and product manuals.
The service team reviewed the company’s R&D projects from the previous three years, selected six independently functioning programs from eleven internal systems, standardized their names, version numbers, development dates, and functional descriptions, and helped organize the source code, operating manuals, and development records.
After the six programs were registered for software copyright, the company linked each certificate to the relevant R&D project, sales contract, and high-tech product revenue, creating a complete intellectual-property and commercialization record.
The company ultimately obtained High and New Technology Enterprise certification. It then qualified for corporate income-tax incentives and met the qualification-scoring requirements in two government procurement projects that year. Ms. Meng was promoted to deputy general manager of the R&D center for leading the intellectual-property and R&D system initiative.
