In the first half of this year, the filing and grant of patent applications in China have three features:

①The patent filings have a fast year-on-year growth. The increase of invention patent applications is 10.1% higher than the same period of last year. The utility model has the biggest increase among three kinds of applications.

②The grants for invention, utility model and design applications all increased over the same period of last year. The invention applications had the fastest growth.

③The proportion of service inventions remained stable which is respectively over 80% and 90% for domestic inventions filings and domestic invention grants. Source: http://www.iprchn.com/Index_NewsContent.aspx?newsId=87438 http://www.gov.cn/xinwen/2014-09/11/content_2749108.htm http://www.gov.cn/gzdt/2013-08/02/content_2460090.htm http://www.ctmo.gov.cn/ywdt/gsyw/zjyw/xxb/201507/t20150731_159619.html

Figure: The number of invention patent applications received by China increased 20.9% in the first half of 2015
Figure: The number of invention patent applications received by China increased 20.9% in the first half of 2015
Figure: The number of invention patent applications received by China increased 20.9% in the first half of 2015
Figure: The number of invention patent applications received by China increased 20.9% in the first half of 2015
Figure: The number of invention patent applications received by China increased 20.9% in the first half of 2015
Figure: The number of invention patent applications received by China increased 20.9% in the first half of 2015