A senior official from the State Intellectual Property Office has promised to further promote the knowledge of intellectual property rights among the general Chinese public. Xu Zhijiang, deputy director of SIPO's patent affairs department, made the pledge last week in Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province, at the opening ceremony of a promotion campaign.
Organized by SIPO, the annual event that began last year aims to better serve the country's economic development by promoting IP knowledge to workers to enhance their abilities to utilize, share, disseminate and manage their companies' intellectual property.
China maintained its position as the world leader in annual patent applications for the fourth consecutive year in 2014, with 928,000 invention patent applications filed, a 12.5 percent increase from 2013. More than 1 million applications are expected this year.
There were 233,000 patents granted in 2014, taking the total number of invention patents authorized by SIPO to about 1.2 million, according to a report from the office.
The report also showed that Chinese companies are paying more attention to international patents, with a rising awareness of their IP edge in global competition. The country received 26,000 international patent applications via the Patent Cooperation Treaty from domestic companies last year, a 14.2-percent increase year-on-year.
However, the volume of patent applications does not indicate that China has become a strong innovation-oriented economy, the report said.
Source: China Daily
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