Annual Report of CNIPA (2021): 55.0% Grant Rate of Invention Patents
China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) issued the 2021 annual report in June, 2022. Below are main information and statistical data relating to patents and trademarks. In 2021, a total of 1,586,000, invention patent applications were filed in China, a year-on-year increase of 5.9%. Among them, 1,428,000 were domestic invention patent applications, accounting for 90.0% of the total, a year-on-year increase of 6.2%; 158,000 were foreign invention patent applications accounting for 10.0% of the total number, a year-on-year increase of 3.6%.