As of March 16, patent applications filed in China surpassed the 5 million mark, registering at 5,002,143 and leaving the 4 million mark behind after only a year and four months.  Invention applications contributed 1,681,464.

 

Compared with the first four one millions, on top of still keeping the fast-growing momentum, the road to the fifth may be summarized as follows.  First, it takes much less time to finish a million.  First million, 15 years; second, 4 years and two months; third, 2 years and 3 months; forth, 1 year and 6 months; fifth, 1 year and 4 months.  Second, domestic users ate up bigger share of the pie for invention.  Domestic invention applications represented 47.8%, 50.7%, 53.4% and 60.8% of the total respectively in the first four one millions.  In the run for the fifth, domestic robbed another 7% to mount to 67%. Third, service applications maintained steady growth. The proportion of that are 41.8%, 49.5%, 52.4% and 53.9% in the first four one millions respectively. In the fifth, it reached 58.1%.

 

 

 

(China IP News)

2009-03-26