Jiangsu: Province leads in patent grants

2015/04/17

Jiangsu province led China in the numbers of patent applications and grants in 2014, according to a joint press conference by the IP authorities of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai last week. Organizations and individuals in Jiangsu filed more than 420,000 patent applications last year and were granted more than 200,000 patents, with 146,660 applications for invention patents, growing 22-fold from 10 years earlier. The province now has more than 80,000 valid invention patents.

(Source: People.com.cn)