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**With prestigious honors and the reappointment of industry leaders, Multi-Fluorine New Materials Co., Ltd. is enjoying “double blessings” in the field of intellectual property. Among the first batch of industrial intellectual property operation centers announced recently by the **Intellectual Property Office**, Duofuduo New Materials Co., Ltd. was successfully selected, becoming one of the 65 units approved nationwide and one of the 3 in Henan Province. Li Shijiang, the chairman of Duofuodu, was re-elected as president of the Jiaozuo Intellectual Property Protection Chamber of Commerce, thanks to his extensive expertise in the field of intellectual property and his influence within the industry. This election marks a new stage in the company’s intellectual property strategy, as it moves from focusing on its own development to playing a leading role in regional development. These two \"happy events\" represent not only a dual recognition of Duofuduo’s strength in the field of intellectual property, but also reflect the evolution of Chinese companies from striving for technological self-reliance to gaining confidence in managing their intellectual property. Laying the foundation: Reconstructing the system to establish strategic pillars. In the fierce competition within the global new materials industry, intellectual property has long become the ticket for companies to compete in the \"knowledge-based market.\" For Duofuduo, this path of understanding began with an international lawsuit, but it ultimately led the company down a strategic development route centered on \"patent navigation\", integrating the three markets of products, capital, and intellectual assets. Going back to the time when the company went public in 2010, a sudden cross-border intellectual property dispute served as a painful lesson for MFIC, which was then making its debut in the capital market. “That battle was extremely difficult. ”Reflecting on the past, Li Shijiang remains deeply moved. This incident also made Duofudu fully realize that intellectual property rights must shift from a passive approach of addressing issues after they arise to an active strategy of proactively planning for them. This hurdle is also a crucial step that Chinese manufacturing must overcome in order to achieve high-quality development. Profound awakening brings about transformative change. Duofu Duo has separated its intellectual property office from the technical department and transferred it as a whole to the Strategic Development Department. This move sends a clear signal: intellectual property is no longer an adjunct to research and development, but a core pillar of the company’s strategic decisions. Since 2016, Duofuduo has fully implemented an intellectual property management system and established a management mechanism for the entire process. The real breakthrough came with the systematic introduction of the “patent navigation” tool in 2022. DFD has established a tripartite collaborative mechanism comprising “strategic objectives – navigation analysis – patent layout”, which is directly led by senior company executives and uniformly managed by the Intellectual Property Office, with the participation of R&D, marketing, and legal departments. At the strategic goal level, before initiating any major project, a patent navigation report is an essential step; it helps to identify technical gaps accurately and prevent unnecessary investment. At the level of navigation analysis, at key milestones such as project commissioning, participation in exhibitions, and technology transfer, potential risks are predicted through data analysis to support the advancement of strategies. At the level of patent strategy, a combined approach of \"patents + trade secrets\" is used to maintain a leading position in technology to the greatest extent possible. In addition, the Strategic Development Department, based on market trends and competitive landscapes, proactively suggests to the R&D and technology department which types of patents are needed and in which areas patents should be applied to create barriers, thereby shifting from a reactive approach to patenting to a proactive strategy that aligns with a market-oriented R&D approach. This effective system is precisely Li Shijiang’s practical application of the “three-stage enterprise development theory”. Companies start by competing in the product market, then use capital markets to amplify their strength, and ultimately must move on to the knowledge economy – providing a home for talent, assigning a value to knowledge, giving wings to innovation, and transforming tacit knowledge into explicit form, explicit knowledge into software, software knowledge into tradable assets, and the trading process into an element of the knowledge economy. Duofu Duo understands that the product market represents the branches and fruits, while the capital market constitutes the foundation; the knowledge market, on the other hand, is like the sunlight and rain. Only through the mutual promotion of these three elements can a company thrive and develop strongly. Bright Sword: Innovation paves the way for commercial value. The power of a system ultimately manifests in the outcomes of innovation and its commercial value. The introduction of patent navigation tools has made Duofuodu’s innovation path of \"technological patenting, patent standardization, and standard internationalization\" more efficient, yielding fruitful results. ——Patenting of technologies: Duofuduo has filed over 1,600 patents and been granted more than 1,000 of them. The vast majority of these are invention patents with high entry barriers, and most of them have been successfully put into industrial use. The achievements that have won the “China Patent Excellence Award” three times are clear evidence of the result of its sustained technological innovation. ——Patent standardization: Duofuduo transforms its technical advantages into influence in the industry. The company has formulated and revised over 100 ** and industry standards, and has also developed a large number of ** standard samples to accompany them. More importantly, it established the first **accredited laboratory** in China’s inorganic fluorine chemicals industry, thereby creating a standardized system that combines **standards**, **standard samples**, and **accredited laboratories**. ——Standard internationalization: Duofuduo has become the convener of the Fluoride Salts Working Group under the International Organization for Standardization ISO/TC 226 (Technical Committee on Raw Materials for Aluminum Production), and is leading the development and revision of multiple international standards ； It also serves as the organizing body for the working group on analysis methods for lithium hexafluorophosphate under ISO/TC 333 (the International Standardization Technical Committee on Lithium), and is responsible for developing international standards for the analysis and testing of lithium hexafluorophosphate. This means that Chinese companies in the global fluorine chemicals industry are shifting from being rule-followers to rule-makers. The value of intellectual property is better reflected in its direct commercial transformation. On the one hand, Duofuduo has successfully developed new sources of economic growth by introducing advanced patented technologies from the Chinese Academy of Sciences ； On the other hand, over 50 core patents were transferred or licensed to the holding subsidiary to enhance its technical capabilities and profitability. What is even more noteworthy is that MDL’s patented technologies have also been successfully transferred to foreign companies, enabling the independent intellectual property rights of Chinese private enterprises to go global. Leadership: Corporate practices drive industry development. Duofu Duo’s consistent efforts and significant achievements in the field of intellectual property have not only strengthened the company’s core competitiveness but also earned it high trust and recognition both within and outside the industry. At the recently held election for the new leadership of the Jiaozuo Intellectual Property Protection Chamber of Commerce and its second member conference, Li Shijiang was re-elected as president thanks to his extensive experience and leadership in this field. This marks a shift in MDL’s intellectual property practices, from an internal corporate strategy to a public platform that serves regional industrial innovation. The reason why Duofuodu is highly trusted lies not only in its practical achievements in breaking through foreign technological blockades and achieving domestic production of key materials, but also in the corporate strategy of \"using intellectual property to drive innovative development\" that has been upheld by the company for a long time. Leveraging over a thousand independently developed patents and a robust intellectual property protection system, Duofuduo has successfully broken the international monopoly on products such as lithium hexafluorophosphate and electronic-grade hydrofluoric acid, achieving a transition from following in terms of technology to taking the lead in the industry. In his statement, Li Shijiang emphasized the need to systematically share the practical experience accumulated by Duofu Duo, transforming it into reusable public service resources. This will help more enterprises establish systems for managing intellectual property risks, preventing them from making mistakes during research and development and market expansion, and ensuring that innovation outcomes truly serve as a solid foundation for the high-quality development of these enterprises. Regarding the future development path of the chamber of commerce, he further proposed a strategic direction based on \"three focuses\": focusing on \"protecting innovation\" by forming specialized teams to provide end-to-end intellectual property services and safeguarding the innovative achievements of enterprises ； Focus on connecting governments and enterprises by establishing regular communication mechanisms to accurately convey policies, address the needs of enterprises, and overcome the \"last mile\" challenge in implementing policies” ； Focusing on “strengthening industries”, we establish communication platforms to promote patent sharing and technological collaboration, thereby helping Jiaozuo’s advantageous industries to form a “collective innovation force”. Journey: Achieving remarkable success while remaining committed to its mission. On the path of intellectual property, Duofuduo has never stopped moving forward… By establishing and operating the Jiaozuo Intellectual Property Protection Chamber of Commerce, Duofuduo has created an organizational framework for collaborative innovation in the regional industry ； In response to the criticism that \"a small city like Jiaozuo shouldn’t have an international arbitration institution,\" Duofuduo is making every effort to establish international arbitration services in its home region, so that Chinese companies can use international rules to protect their rights right at home ； By partnering with professional patent firms, Duofuduo provides enterprises with end-to-end services ranging from technical strategy development to the acquisition of intellectual property rights, transforming the experience gained in actual patent practices into professional resources available for sharing within the industry ； By integrating intellectual property training into its educational system, Duofuduo has strengthened its own talent pool through systematic training on a formal basis, and it has also contributed skilled professionals to the industry… Through its own practical efforts, Duofuduo has paved a viable path for China’s manufacturing sector. Behind all this is the deep integration of Duofuduo’s red gene and innovation gene. Li Shijiang firmly believes that “a company must have aspirations that go beyond profit.” This pursuit is precisely the driving force that enables DFTO to constantly surpass itself and lead change. Despite its remarkable achievements, Duofuduo is well aware of the challenges it faces, such as a shortage of multidisciplinary talent and the need to improve grassroots participation. To this end, they have outlined a clear path for optimization and called for greater support at the policy level to jointly create a favorable ecosystem for the development of intellectual property. As Li Shijiang said, in an era of irreversible globalization, only by standing tall and growing under the nurturing influence of a knowledge-based market can China’s independent intellectual property rights truly reach the world. Duofu Duo will continue to use intellectual property as its strategic driving force; by pursuing continuous self-innovation, it will expand the scope and depth of its impact on various industries.