China patent applications grow 22 percent

November 16, 2015

China received 1.876 million in the first three quarters of 2015, 709,000 (37.8 percent) of which were for inventions, up 21.7 percent compared to the figures for the respective quarter of 2014.

According to data from the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO), 779,000 were for utility model patents, increasing 33.6 percent, while the remaining 388,000 were for design patents, increasing 4.4 percent, Lexology reported.

Of the invention patent applications 610,000 were domestic, up 24.9 percent, while 99,000 were from overseas, increasing 5.1 percent. In the domestic subcategory, 492,000 were service applications, accounting for 80.7 percent, while 118,000 were non-service, making up 19.3 percent of the inventions.

In the first three quarters of 2015, SIPO granted 1.176 million patents of all the three kinds, up 25.8 percent. Among them, 248,000 were invention patents, up 46 percent; 599,000 were utility model patents, up 18.9 percent; and 329,000 were design patents, up 26.1 percent.

The SIPO granted 1.176 million patents in the quarter, up 25.8 percent, 181,000 of which were domestic, up 52.5 percent. 67,000 of the SIPO domestic invention patents were from overseas, growing 31.1 percent; with 164,000 for service invention patents, making up 90.6 percent, while 17,000 were not, accounting for 9.4 percent.

The SIPO said the major trends were that applications were growing rapidly, particularly invention patents, which were up 9.5 percent compared to last year, while the number of invention patents granted hit a high growth rate of almost 50 percent.

Utility model patents and design patents were both registered higher than invention patents, and the proportion of domestic invention patent applications had a stable level at 80 percent, while the overall proportion of domestic service invention patents granted came in at over 90 percent.

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