Key Indicators of IP Make Steady Progress in 2018
On January 10, China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) held a press conference and released statistics for the year 2018 on patents, trademarks, geographic indications (GI) and layout designs of integrated circuits.
In 2018, granted invention patents in China totaled 432,000, 346,000 of which were from domestic users. Huawei (3,369), Sinopec (2,849) and OPPO (2,345) ranked top three in terms of the number of granted invention patens in China. As of the end of 2018, the grants of invention patents in China amounted to 1.602 million. The number of invention patents owned by every 10,000 people reached 11.5. In 2018, CNIPA received 55,000 PCT applications, up 9.0%; 52,000 of which were from local users, up 9.3%. The pendency for high-value patent examination was shrunk by 10% with a 52-percent reduction in complaints against patent examination.