The third revision of China's patent law became  effective on October 1, 2009. "Thanks to good preparations, the revised patent law fares well, evidenced by comfortable practice of patent filing and examination", according to a principle of SIPO.

Latest statistics show that SIPO received 17,581 inventions, 20,114 utility models and 34,621 designs from October 1 to 30. In addition, SIPO received 2,472 inventions and utility models filed on the same day for the same subject matter, 171 petitions for foreign filing license and 16 forms of disclosure of origin of genetic resources the same time span.

(China IP News)