China first to file one million patents a year
November 28, 2016 Category IPR protection, Weekly
China became the first country to file 1 million patent applications in a single year, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) said. Chinese innovators filed most of their 2015 applications in electrical engineering, which includes telecoms, followed by computer technology and semiconductors, and measurement instruments, including medical technology. “The figures for China are quite extraordinary. It is the first patent office in the world to receive more than 1 million applications,” WiPO Director General Francis Gurry told a news briefing to launch its report, “World Intellectual Property Indicators.” The bulk of China’s 1.01 million applications were for domestic protection in patents, trademarks and industrial design, with only some 42,154 filed abroad, he said. But there is a “slow and gradual” increase in China’s applications for international patents, Gurry added. “They are in the process of making innovation a central point of their economic strategy.” Worldwide, some 2.9 million patent applications were filed last year, a 7.8% increase from 2014, WiPO said. Roughly two in three patents are ultimately approved, Gurry said. The United States ranked second last year with 526,296 patent applications, followed by Japan at 454,285 and South Korea with 238,015, the Shanghai Daily reports. Huawei topped an international patent system ranking, submitting 3,898 applications. ZTE was third with 2,155 submissions.
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