| China Intellectual Property Statistical Yearbook 2022 | |
| 3-1 Patents in Force of Three Kinds Originated from Home and Abroad | ||||
| (Unit: piece) | ||||
| Invention | Utility Model | Industrial Design | ||
| Total | 2017 | 2085367 | 3603187 | 1459054 |
| 2018 | 2366314 | 4403658 | 1610616 | |
| 2019 | 2670784 | 5262039 | 1789671 | |
| 2020 | 3057844 | 6947697 | 2187356 | |
| 2021 | 3596901 | 9243443 | 2580532 | |
| 2022 | 4212188 | 10835261 | 2831512 | |
| Domestic | 2017 | 1413911 | 3563389 | 1346915 |
| 2018 | 1662269 | 4359926 | 1495596 | |
| 2019 | 1926122 | 5214362 | 1671586 | |
| 2020 | 2279123 | 6895886 | 2061859 | |
| 2021 | 2773287 | 9190633 | 2453506 | |
| 2022 | 3351453 | 10781169 | 2708070 | |
| Foreign | 2017 | 671456 | 39798 | 112139 |
| 2018 | 704045 | 43732 | 115020 | |
| 2019 | 744662 | 47677 | 118085 | |
| 2020 | 778721 | 51811 | 125497 | |
| 2021 | 823614 | 52810 | 127026 | |
| 2022 | 860735 | 54092 | 123442 | |
| Note: Statistics on patents in force refer to the number of patents which are still in force and valid at the time of data collection, which include patents for invention, utility model and industrial design. Unlike the number of patent applications or grants, the number of patents in force is not flowing data but stocking data. | ||||
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