News from China

摘要

According to the data from SJPO, in 2014 China received 928,000 invention patent applications, showing an annual growth of 12.5%. In these applications, 801,000 were domestic, accounting for 86.3% and 127,000 were foreign, accounting for 13.7%. There were 233,000 invention patents granted, displaying a growth of 12.3%. In the granted patents, 163,000 were domestic, accounting for 70%, and 70,000 were international, accounting for 30%. China's invention patent applications were increasing stably in the past year. In 2014, the growth rate of patent applications was 12.5%, lower than the average rate of over 20%.