CNIPA Releases Data for the First Half of 2021
On 14 July 2021, at CNIPA's regular third quarter press
conference in Beijing, the semi-annual statistical data relating to
patents, trademarks, geographical indications and layout design of
integrated circuits were released.
The data contained three highlights:
1) The continued improvement in intellectual property
rights' examination. As of the end of June, the average
examination period for invention patents had been reduced to 19.4
months; the examination period for high-value patents to 13.4
months; and the average examination period for trademark
registration to less than 4 months.
2) The number of enterprises with invention patents had
increased steadily. By the end of June, there were 270,000
enterprises with valid invention patents, an increase of 24,000
compared with the end of last year. Among these, 126,000 were
high-tech enterprises with a total of 1.077 million effective
invention patents, accounting
