Four million patent applications accepted in China
China has accepted over one million patent applications in the past 18 months, bringing the total to four million since 1985 when the country's Patent Law took effect, the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) of China announced on December 25, 2007. It took 15 years for the SIPO to accept the first one million patent applications. Then it took 50 months for the figure to reach two million, and only 27 months for three million.
Of the latest one million patent applications accepted, about 60.8 percent were made by Chinese applicants, but among the first one million patent applications, only 47.8 percent were made by Chinese applicants. It shows that Chinese people's awareness of patent application has been enhanced and the self-innovation capability of China is increasing.
(Xinhua)
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