Patent filings and grants are still on the fast track in the first half, according to the latest statistics from SIPO.  The IP authority received 426,000 patent applications, up 23.1%; granted 252,000 patents, up 31.3%.  Deemed as nice surprises, domestic inventions contributed to 70% of all invention filings while domestic invention grants edged foreign ones, both for the first time. 

Among the 426,000 patent applications, 375,000 are from home, up 28.9% and representing 88.0% of the total.  The 375,000 are furthered broken into 205,000 or 54.7% service ones, and 170,000 or 45.3% non-service ones.  There are 51,000 applications from abroad, down 7.3% and representing 12.0% of the total.  In terms of types of patents, there are 148,000 invention applications (34.8%), 142,000 utility models (33.4%) and 136,000 designs (31.8%).  

As of the end of June 2009, SIPO had received cumulative 5.276 million patent applications and granted 2.753 million patents. 

(China IP News)