Data showed that China had 1.382 million invention patent
applications, up 14.2% year on year. 420,000 invention patents have
been granted, among which domestic grants reached 327,000, up 8.2%.
The momentum of patent sector can be found both in terms of numbers
and quality. The development steps from a major IPR country towards
an IPR powerful country become more solid.
Enhanced innovation
"In 2017, enterprises accounted for 63.3% and 66.4% of the
national invention patent applications and grants, up by 1.6 and
0.9 percentage points from that in 2016," said Bi Nan,
Director-General of Planning and Development Department, SIPO.
More focus on quality
Bi Nan said, since the 18th CPC National Congress, SIPO proposed
the ideology that "quality prevails and volume deploys"
and launched the program of patent quality improvement, with focus
on the full chain of patent work, including key parts of patent
application, agency, review, protection and application. A
