World IPR Indicators 2009 released by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) showed that China's influence in IP cause is increasingly spreading in the world. The indicator says that between 1995 and 2007, fillings in China grew by 23.9% a year, which is far above the growth rate of filings at the European Patent Office (EPO) and in the United States. For the first time, a Chinese company Huawei Technology topped the list of applicants with the highest number of PCT filings; in 2007, 20.6% of the trademark applications worldwide were filed to China; and the rapid increase of design patent applications was mainly the proliferation of patent applications in China.

In the aspect of invention patents, with the trend of a slowdown in the growth rate of patent filings, the amounts of fillings at the IP Office of China was increasing rapidly. The patent grants in China are also increasing but at a low speed. In counties which have both patent and utility model systems for the protection of inventions, the use of utility models is somewhat limited compared to patents. For example, the number of utility model filings received by the patent offices of Germany, Japan and the Republic of Korea is much less than their respective numbers of patent filings. The patent office of China is the most notable exception, with a large number of both utility model and patent filings. The patent office of China received by far the largest number of utility model filings in 2007, followed by the patent offices of the Republic of Korea and Germany. 
                                                                                                Source: IPR in China