October 1 this year marks the 2nd anniversary of the implementation of the third revision of Chinese patent law. According to statistics, as of August 31, 2011, SIPO had received over 1,600 patent applications with forms of disclosure of origin of genetic resources; as of September 30, SIPO had examined more than 76,000 petitions for foreign filing license; from November 1, 2009 to August 31, 2011, SIPO  received 252 requests for evaluation report for design patent.
It took SIPO over a year to receive the first 800 of the above-mentioned 1,600 applications while the rest 800 arrived within the period from January to August 2011.

As of September 30, 2011, SIPO had examined more than 76,000 petitions for foreign filing license in the past two years since the third revision of the Chinese patent law became effective.  Among the petitions, 802 were requested for applications directly bound to overseas destinations; over 46,000, either raised during or after filing, were for applications seeking protection in China, the rest  26,000 were for PCT applications.

In two years, more and more public has put their eyes on the design patent evaluation report and used them. According to the Industrial Design Examination Department of SIPO, during the period from October 1, 2009 to August 31, 2011, it received 252 requests for evaluation report for design patent., 231 of which were completed. 

(China IP News)