Patent filings in China exceeds 710,000

In the first ten months this year, the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) received 712,300 pieces of patent filings in all, increasing by 12% compared with 635,235 pieces in the same period of last year; the granted patents were 436,932 pieces, up 29.7% compared with 336,811 pieces last year.

Among the received patent filings, resident filings were 631,044 pieces, rising by 16.6% and taking up 88.6% of the total filings; non-resident applications were 81,256 pieces, decreasing by 13.6%, taking up 11.4% of the total amounts. Analyzing from patent types, invention patent filings were 235,634 pieces, up 2.3%; utility model filings were 229,168 pieces, up 31.9%; design patent applications were 247,498 pieces, up 7%. The filings of invention, utility model and design patents took up 33.1%, 32.2% and 34.7% of the total patent applications, respectively.

Among the 436,932 pieces of patent grants, resident patent grants were 372,853 pieces, up 29.3%; non-resident patent grants were 64,079 pieces, up 32.2%. In the three categories of patents, invention patent grants were 102,397 pieces, utility model grants were 152,434 pieces, design patent grants were 182,101 pieces, up 36.6%, 5.1% and 56.0%, respectively, and taking up 23.4%, 34.9% and 41.7% of the total amount of patent grants.

(Source：IPR in China)

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