Recently, China's national defense patent applications have exceeded 20, 000, becoming a strong drive force for the military independent innovation and the information construction for the weaponry. The number of our nation's patent applications overran those abroad in successive 3 years, for which national patents have played an important role.

It is learnt that, the amount of our national defense patent application increased year by year since the first application of such kind was filed. The national defense application keeps an increase rate of 40% annually since 2000, and the implementation rate of patents keeps at 70%, realizing the win-win situation for both innovation and patent achievements transformation.

In 1990, China issued the Regulation on National Defense Patent, which signaled the set up of national patent system. On September 17, 2004, the newly revised National Defense Patent was published which consummated the national patent laws and regulations.

On June 5, 2008, the State Council issued the Outline of the National Intellectual Property Strategy, and on May 6, 2009, the leading group for the implementation of national IP implementation was set up. By now, the implementation scheme for the national defense IP strategy has completed, and related measures on IP management will be launched soon.
                                                                                                Source: IPR in China