Chinese Patent applications on the rise
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.
