The reporter recently learned from the State Intellectual Property Office that in 2010, the number of annual patent applications in my country exceeded one million for the first time, reaching 1.222 million, and the number of authorizations was 815,000. The number of international patent applications submitted through the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) approach 13,000 pieces, an increase of 25.2%, 40% and 61.3% respectively over the previous year.

In 2010, my country accepted 391,000 invention patent applications, a year-on-year increase of 24.1%. Among them, domestic invention patent applications (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) were 293,000, accounting for 74.9% of the total, a year-on-year increase of 27.9%; foreign applications were 98,000, accounting for 25.1% of the total, a year-on-year increase of 15.3%. Among the domestic invention patent applications, there were 224,000 job applications, accounting for 76.5% of the total; 69,000 non-job applications, accounting for 23.5% of the total. Among the domestic service invention patent applications, 155,000 were filed by enterprises, accounting for 69.2%; 48,000 by universities, accounting for 21.4%; 18,000 by scientific research institutions, accounting for 8.0%; 3,000 by government agencies, accounting for 1.4%. In 2010, 135,000 invention patents were authorized in my country, a year-on-year increase of 5.5%. Among them, 80,000 domestic invention patents were authorized, accounting for 59.3% of the total; 55,000 foreign patents were authorized, accounting for 40.7% of the total.

Statistics from the State Intellectual Property Office show that in 2010, my country's patent applications and authorizations continued to maintain rapid growth in domestic applications, reproduced the growth trend of foreign applications, further strengthened the status of enterprises as the main body of intellectual property creation, and dominated the number of domestic invention patent authorizations, etc. 4 major features. In 2010, the growth rate of domestic invention patent applications increased by 10 percentage points over the previous year, and the number of domestic invention patent applications was about three times that of foreign invention patent applications in China. Compared with 2009, the number of foreign invention patent applications accepted reached 98,000, a year-on-year increase of 15.3%, reversing the downward trend of the previous year, recovering and exceeding the level before the financial crisis. Among domestic invention patent applications, job applications accounted for 76.5% of the total, of which enterprise applications accounted for 69.2% of service inventions. Among domestic invention patent applications, enterprise invention patent applications accounted for more than half, reaching 52.9%. The phenomenon that the number of domestic invention patents authorized is less than that of foreign countries has been fundamentally reversed. The domestic invention patent authorization accounted for 59.3% of the invention patent authorization in 2010, nearly 60%.

It is reported that during the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period, the State Intellectual Property Office accepted a total of 4.294 million patent applications of three types, an average annual increase of 20.7% compared with the end of the "Tenth Five-Year Plan" period. Among them, there were 1.451 million invention patent applications, an average annual increase of 17.7%. Accepted 36,500 international patent applications, with an average annual growth of 39.6%. The increase in the number of patent applications indicates the continuous improvement of my country's innovation capability.