China: patent applications outnumber 6 million items
2010/05/10
Based on the statistics disclosed by the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO), as of March 2010, the accepted patent applications in China had totaled 6,011,448 items, of which invention patent applications were 2,005,779 items, utility model patent applications were 2,073,596 items and design patent applications were 1,932,073 items. Among all the applications, home applications were 5,060,165 items of which invention patent applications were 1,184,512 items, utility model patent applications were 2,058,905 items and design patent applications were 1,816,748 items; foreign applications were 951,283 items, of which invention patent applications were 821,267 items, utility model patent applications were 14,691 items and design patent applications were 115,325 items. Up to March 2010, the SIPO had granted 3,230,677 items of patent applications.
Source: IPR in China
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