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 applications are more concentrated. In 2007, patent applications filed in the United States, Japan and China accounted for about 59.2% of the global total.

The report shows that China's concentration of outward patent families in the field of communications exceeds the world average, showing that China has a certain R&D strength in this field. China's Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. topped the global PCT filing list for the first time in 2008, with Japan's Panasonic and Netherlands' Philips ranking second and third respectively. During the year, PCT applications from global business institutions accounted for approximately 83.8% of the total number of PCT applications.

Similar to the trend of invention patent applications, the total number of grants in China is also increasing but at a slower pace. The top five patent offices in the world account for 74.4% of the total number of patents granted in the world. The growing trend of patent grants in China began in the late 1990s. In 2007, the number of patents granted by the State Intellectual Property Office of China surpassed that of the European Patent Office, ranking fourth. Japanese applicants account for the largest proportion of non-resident patents granted in China.

In terms of utility model patents, the report stated that in countries that use both the invention and utility model systems to protect inventions and creations, the use of utility models is limited compared to invention patents, but the State Intellectual Property Office of China accepts a large number of utility models at the same time. Patent applications and invention patent applications are the most notable. The number of utility model patent applications accepted by the State Intellectual Property Office of China ranked first in 2007, with about 180,000, followed by South Korea and Germany with 21,000 and 18,000 respectively; about 150,000 authorized by the State Intellectual Property Office of China The number of licenses in Germany and Japan decreased by 7.4% and 4.8% respectively compared with the previous year.

In terms of trademarks, in 2007, about 3.3 million trademark applications were filed worldwide, an increase of 1.6% compared to 2006. However, currently available data for 2008 show that the total number of trademark filings tends to be negative. In 2007, 20.6% of trademark applications worldwide were filed with China, and 9.2% of trademark applications were filed with the United States. Chinese residents and U.S. residents received the largest number of trademark registrations, each accounting for 11% of all registrations in 2007.

In terms of design patents, the growth rate of applications is higher than that of other types of intellectual property, which is mainly due to the surge in the number of applications from the State Intellectual Property Office of China. In 2007, 43.1% of global design patent applications came from China; China accounted for 26.2% of all design registrations.

At the same time, the report also shows that there is still a certain gap between my country's research and development strength in major technical fields such as biotechnology, drugs, and transportation compared with developed countries.