Some 17,884 bigger companies among 426,000 filed patent applications last year, according to the State Intellectual Property Office and National Bureau of Statistics, and 13,279 companies obtained, representing 4.2% and 3.1% of the total respectively. Of which, 8,766 companies filed the invention patents and 2,542 obtained, 2.1% and 0.6% of the total.

According to the statistics, prime operating revenue of the above applicants reached 11.2478 trillion yuan in 2008, and representing 22.3% of the total. Also, this year saw 2.9233 trillion yuan and 708.3 billion yuan of new products sales revenue and exportation, 51.2% and 50.1% of the total respectively.

(China IP News)