China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) has released statistical data on patent implementation licenses for the year 2022 and the past five years. The data is derived from the patent implementation license contracts recorded by CNIPA (from January 1, 2018 to December 31, 2022), the statistics collect key information such as payment methods, transaction amounts, royalty rates, etc., with a total of 19,328 contracts involving a total of 52,183 patents. Among them, invention, utility model and design patents account for 51.0%, 39.1%, and 9.9%, respectively, on average, each patent implementation license contract involved 2.7 patents.
From the perspective of license fee payment methods, there were a total of 11,959 contracts that involved fixed or convertible amount payments, accounting for 61.9%, the total value of these contracts amounted to 39.98 billion yuan, with an average contract value of 3.343 million yuan and an average license duration of 3.9 years; Contracts based on royalty payments numbered 1,344, accounting for 7.0% of the total, with an average license duration of 8.2 years; Gratuitous license contracts totaled 6,025, making up 31.2% of the total.
Source:https://www.cnipa.gov.cn/art/2023/9/21/art_550_187687.html?xxgkhide=1