China received 751,000 invention patent applications in the first half of 2018, a year-on-year increase of 33.6%.
SIPO received 23,000 PCT applications, up 6.3%, including 21,600 from domestic applicants, up 7.6%. Seventeen domestic companies filed more than 100 applications, the same number as a year earlier. Huawei, Ping An Technology (Shenzhen) and BOE each filed more than 1,000.
The top ten domestic enterprises by invention patents granted in the first half of 2018, excluding Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, were:
1. Huawei Technologies: 1,775. 2. Sinopec Group: 1,569. 3. Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications: 1,520. 4. State Grid Corporation of China: 1,242. 5. ZTE: 1,028.
6. BOE Technology Group: 904. 7. Gree Electric Appliances of Zhuhai: 787. 8. Lenovo (Beijing): 697. 9. Tencent Technology (Shenzhen): 664. 10. PetroChina: 557.
Patent administrative cases increased by 29.5%, including a 41.0% rise in patent disputes and a 14.1% rise in patent passing-off cases. Authorities resolved 13,600 trademark violation cases involving more than RMB 210 million.
Trademark applications totaled 3.586 million, up 58%, with the full-year total then projected to reach eight million.
The Trademark Law prescribed a nine-month examination period. This had been reduced to eight months by the end of 2017 and to seven months and two days in the first half of 2018. Further targets were six months by the end of 2018, five months in 2019 and four months by 2020.
In the first five months of 2018, Chinese applicants filed 2,228 Madrid international trademark applications, up 80.69%, ranking third in the Madrid Union.
Sources: http://m.51touch.com/wap.php?action=article&id=50869 ; http://www.sipo.gov.cn/zscqgz/zgxw/1126077.htm