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Chinese Patent applications on the rise

By Timothy J. Maier on April 1, 2008 12:27 PM

According to the Chinese State Intellectual Property Office, the SIPO received 694,153 patent applications in 2007, an increase of 21.1% from 2006. Chinese applicants made up 84.5% of the yearly total, with the rest being filed from abroad. Additionally, the SIPO received 5,401 Patent Cooperation Treaty applications in 2007—a 41.2% increase from 2006—with 96.7% of the applications being filed by Chinese applicants. The majority of PCT applications were related to the high-tech and telecommunications industries.

 The SIPO granted 351,782 patents in 2007, with 50,150 of those going to foreign applicants.

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