ESG Report 2020

PROTECTION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS The Group has made continual breakthroughs in United Laboratories Methods of Intellectual the research and development of pharmaceuticals Property Management in accordance with relevant and innovative production technologies, hence the laws and regulations to regulate the patent protection of our commodities patents and application and maintenance work. For new intellectual property rights has become an technologies, new processes, new formulas, utility indispensable part of the protection of our models and product packaging designs, the Group products and assets. In order to promote the will carry out comprehensive patent rights Group s management of intellectual property rights application and maintenance to create favourable and to fully develop the benefits of patented conditions for the Group's research, development commodities and assets, we have formulated The and innovation. ’ ’ Independent Development of Production Technology - Automatic Cartoner The oral solution workshop at Zhongshan The upgraded automatic cartoner can Company has always been regarded as a reduce the manpower input of three high demanding workshop because of its operators, but can speed up the packaging fast production speed, which requires high speed, greatly improving the production speed for manual medicine setting, efficiency. And in terms of research and medicine management and packing, development funds, the independent especially for the packing process. During research and development funds used by the packaging process, a slight error in the Zhongshan Company is more than 5 times procedure can bring the whole production lower than directly purchasing automatic line to a standstill, which affects cartoner in the market, saving the cost of productivity and also causes work fatigue technical transformation. and mental stress to the staff when working under high pressure for a long time. As a result, the workshop manager and the equipment specialist discussed on the solution. After a technical study, feasibility study and b u d g e t a n a l y s i s , t h e workshop manager finally i m p l e m e n t e d a s e l f - deve l oped sol u t i on of transforming and upgrading the previous cartoning mode and the automatic cartoner. 54 Environmental, Social and Governance Report 2020 The United Laboratories International Holdings Limited