WIPO Indicators Report: China's growing influence in the world of intellectual property
According to an authoritative report released by the World Intellectual Property Organization recently, the influence of China's intellectual property cause in the world is expanding day by day. This "World Intellectual Property Indicators Report (2009)" describes China's intellectual property situation as follows: From 1995 to 2007, the average annual growth rate of invention patent applications accepted by the State Intellectual Property Office of China was 23.9%, much higher than that of Europe and the United States; 2008 In 2007, Huawei, a high-tech company from China, topped the global PCT patent application ranking for the first time; in 2007, 20.6% of trademark applications worldwide were submitted to China; global design patent applications have grown rapidly, mainly due to the surge in the number of applications in China. result.
This report is an extension of the World Patent Report established by the World Intellectual Property Organization in 2006, and covers the development of four types of intellectual property rights, including invention patents, utility model patents, trademarks and design patents. The data mainly come from the World Intellectual Property Organization statistical database, the annual reports of national intellectual property management departments, the World Bank, UNESCO, and trilateral statistical reports.
The report shows that in terms of invention patents, under the trend that the total number of global applications continues to grow but the speed gradually slows down, the number of applications in China has grown against the trend, and the gap with Japan and the United States has gradually narrowed.
From 1995 to 2007, the average annual growth rate of invention patent applications accepted by the State Intellectual Property Office of China was 23.9%, much higher than that of Europe and the United States. Between 2003 and 2008, China's share of PCT applications increased by less than 2 percentage points. Patent applicatio