The China Nationwide Mental Property Administration (CNIPA) lately launched mental property submitting knowledge for July 2020exhibiting a stabilization in patent filings after the latest upsurge. Invention patent utility filings have been flat in comparison with June 2020 at 134,188 filings whereas utility mannequin functions have been down barely at 268,928 versus 276,598 filings in June 2020. Nonetheless, each numbers are considerably increased than July 2019 by 13.5% for invention patent utility filings and 28% for utility mannequin utility filings.
Cumulative filings for invention patents functions by means of July 2020 was 817,678 versus 767,846 filings by means of July 2019. Cumulative filings for utility mannequin functions by means of July 2020 was 1,542,057 versus 1,205,827 filings by means of July 2019. Cumulatively, foreigners filed 10.1% of invention patent functions to this point this yr and 0.3% of utility mannequin functions, an usually neglected mental property proper.
Cumulatively by means of July 2020, there have been 265,504 invention patents granted, with foreigners receiving 18.5% of the granted patents. Cumulatively, there have been 1,270,135 utility fashions granted, with foreigners receiving 0.4% of the grants.
6,563 Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) functions have been obtained in July 2020 for a complete of 36,111 PCT functions cumulatively for the yr. Extrapolating for the yr, there could also be about 62 thousand PCT functions, exceeding the 13th five-year plan objective of 60,000 PCT functions by 2020.
Extra detailed knowledge is out there right here (Chinese language solely).
Month-to-month Invention Patent Software Filings in China 2020 versus 2019
Month-to-month Utility Mannequin Software Filings in China 2020 versus 2019
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