Recently, China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) released China Patent Investigation Report (2023). The main points are as follows.
(1) The industrialization rate of invention patents in China has been further improved.
In 2023, the industrialization rate of China’s invention patents was 39.6%, an increase of 2.9% over the previous year, showing a stable increase for five consecutive years. As the main body of innovation, the industrialization rate of invention patents of Chinese enterprises was 51.3%, 3.2% higher than that of the previous year. From the perspective of enterprise scale, the industrialization rates of invention patents of large, medium, small and micro-sized enterprises were 51.0%, 57.9%, 53.9% and 33.8% respectively, all of which were higher than the previous year.
(2) Industry-University-Research cooperation has effectively improved the effectiveness of patent industrialization.
In 2023, the average income of Chinese enterprises' Industry-University-Research invention patent industrialization reached 10.332 million yuan/piece, which was 24.5% higher than the average income of enterprises' invention patent industrialization (8.296 million yuan). The survey also shows that the proportion of enterprises solving key technologies or key parts problems through Industry-UniversityResearch cooperation is the highest, reaching 56.1%, indicating that Industry-University-Research cooperation plays an important role in tackling key core technologies.
(3) The protection of intellectual property rights in China continued to improve.
In 2023, 6.7% of Chinese patentees suffered patent infringement, down 1.0% from the previous year. Among the patent infringement lawsuits involving enterprises, 8.4% of the cases were determined by the court for compensation, court mediation or out-of-court settlement with an amount of more than 5 million yuan, an increase of 1.4% from the previous year, and maintained at more than 7% in the past three years, indicating that the illegal cost of intellectual property infringement in China is continuously rising.
(4) The team of intellectual property talents in enterprises is growing.
In 2023, 61.3%of Chinese enterprise patentees have full-time IP management staffs, 78.3% have part-time IP management staffs, and only 8.6% do not have full-time or part-time IP management staffs. The survey also shows that 26.9% of enterprise patentees plan to expand their IP management team in the coming year.
Source:http://www.iprchn.com/cipnews/news_content.aspx?newsId=139727