China's patent application breaks 5 million pieces

It was learnt from the press conference held by the Information Office of the Sate Council on April 21, till March 16 of this year, China's accumulated patent applications have surmounted 5 million pieces.

In 2008, China witnessed rapid rise in IPR application and authorization. Chinese government totally accepted 828,328 patent applications, increasing by 19.4%, 717,144 of which were domestic applications and 111,184 foreign applications. And also in 2008, China granted 411,982 patent rights, with the increase of 17.1%.

As of the end of 2008, China had received 4,853,506 pieces of patent applications and granted 2,501,268 patent rights. And the amount of China's PCT international patent application arrived at 6,089, rising up 11.9%, and ranking the sixth place among all countries.

(Source：IPR in China)

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