Growing Patents Show Better IPR Protection

China's increasingly strong protection of intellectual property rights over the past decade has attracted more foreign enterprises to do business in the country, contributing greatly to opening-up, an IPR regulator said.

"In the past 10 years, we've strengthened efforts in protecting IPR nationwide, and we've always given equal protection to every enterprise, no matter whether it is Chinese-funded or foreign-funded," Zhang Zhicheng, spokesman for the CNIPA, said at a news conference on Tuesday (Sept. 6).

Last year, the number of invention patents applied for by foreign entities and authorized by Chinese IPR administrations saw a 23-percent increase year-on-year, while trademarks registered by foreign entities also increased by 5 percent compared with that in 2020, he said.