CNIPA Releases National Intellectual Property Agency
Industry Development Status (2023)
Date: 16 August 2024
The National Intellectual Property Agency Industry
Development Status (2023) indicates that China's
intellectual property agency industry showed a positive trend of
steady development in 2023. The industry continued to grow; by the
end of 2023, the total number of patent agencies (excluding Hong
Kong, Macao, and Taiwan), had increased to 5269, the number of
people who obtained the patent agent qualification certificate
reached 76,230, and the number of practicing patent agents was
34,396. There are more patent agencies in the economically
developed areas in the eastern and coastal areas of China. The top
five provinces/cities in the ranking are Beijing, Guangdong,
Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai, consistent with their ranking in
2022. Beijing has the highest number of patent agencies, with a
total of 1042, accounting for 19.8% of the total number of
