The World Intellectual Property Organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, recently released a report saying that in 2014, China became the country with the largest increase in the number of international patent applications, and China's innovation in the field of intellectual property has become the main driving force for the growth of global patent applications. Experts believe that China's outstanding performance in the field of patents shows that some Chinese companies are already globally competitive.

According to the World Intellectual Property Organization, in 2014, countries around the world applied for a total of 215,000 patents through the organization's Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) system, an increase of 4.5% over the previous year and the fifth consecutive year of growth. With 25,539 patents, it was the largest contributor with an 18.7% increase, and the only country to achieve double-digit growth.

In 2014, three telecommunications companies from China and the United States ranked among the top three international patent applications filed by the World Intellectual Property Organization. China's Huawei overtook Japan's Panasonic to become the largest applicant in 2014 with 3,442 published PCT applications, followed by US Qualcomm with 2,409 published applications, and China's ZTE with 2,179 PCT applications ranked third.

In addition, there are 4 other Chinese companies in the top 50 list of international patent applications, and Huawei and Tencent have the largest increase in the top 50 applicants. Fink pointed out that this situation did not exist in the past few years, which shows that more and more powerful enterprises are emerging in China to participate in the global innovation competition.

The European Patent Office's 2014 European Patent Application Annual Report released last month also found that Chinese companies have become the strongest driver of European patent application growth. Last year, the number of international patents applied by Chinese companies in Europe increased by 18% compared with 2013, the highest growth rate. Patent applications from China have accounted for 9% of all new international patent applications in Europe, a record share. It ranks fourth among all patent-filing countries at the European Patent Office.

According to the introduction of the European Patent Office President Badis Dali, the patent applications of Chinese enterprises in the field of digital communication have grown the fastest, and 15% of the applications in this field have come from Chinese companies, second only to the United States and higher than Sweden, France and Japan. . Huawei, ZTE and Tencent are the top three patent filing companies in China.

Among them, Huawei became the first Chinese company among the top ten patent filing companies of the European Patent Office in 2014 with 1,600 patent applications. At the same time, in terms of patent applications in the field of digital communication technology at the European Patent Office, Huawei ranked first for the first time, ahead of international telecom giants such as Sweden's Ericsson.

Badis Dali also told this reporter that this year marks the 30th anniversary of China-EU patent cooperation. The two sides will continue to strengthen cooperation in various fields, provide effective protection for patent owners, reduce time and money costs, and hope to be more conducive to the promotion of innovation entities. Technological innovation to promote economic development.