Source: China Daily

The provincial government released its 2018 white paper on Guizhou's intellectual property protection and development on Friday. More than 14,990 invention patent applications from the province were filed last year, up 7.97 percent from 2017. The number of new trademark filings jumped 36.5 percent to nearly 73,390 in 2018 from a year earlier. The number of copyrighted works from the province surpassed 1,200, three times that of 2017, according to the report.