The average pendency time for Chinese invention patent applications was about 22.2 months in 2019, and was reduced to 20 months in 2020. The average pendency time for trademark applications was shortened to 4 months, and the period for trademark registration in China was shortened to 78 months.
The statistics of the patent pendency time of EPO, Japan, South Korea and the United States in 2019 is shown as below. The data comes from the IP5 Statistics Report (2019). The pendency time of Chinese invention patent applications is in the middle of the IP5 offices.
(EPO): the average pendency time from filing to first action was shortened to 5.5 months, and the average pendency time was shortened to 28.1 months.
(JPO): the average pendency time from filing to first action was shortened to 9.5 months, and the average pendency time was shortened to 14.3months.
(KIPO): the average pendency time from filing to first action for patent applications and utility model applications was 10.8 months.
(USPTO) the average pendency time from filing to first action was shorted to 13.3 months, which was the lowest since January 2002.
Source:https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1689655128181069660&wfr=spider&for=pc