WIPO Indicators Report: China's Growing Influence of IPR in the World

WIPO recently published an authoritative report which showed that China's intellectual property cause had played an ever increasing role in the international arena. From 1995 to 2007, China's State Intellectual Property Office saw an average annual growth rate of 23.9% on invention patent applications, much higher than its European and the United States' counterparts; 2007 witnessed 20.6% of the trade mark applications around the globe owing to China; global design patent applications' rapid growth was primarily due to the surge of applications in China.

At the same time, the report also showed that there was still a huge gap between China and developed countries' R & D capabilities in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, transportation and other major fields.

http://www.chinaipr.gov.cn/news/chinaworld/591223.shtml

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