Recently, CNIPA issued the Annual Report on Business Transactions of Intellectual Property in China (2018), revealing that the times of Chinese patents operations logged at 253,000, up 2.1%, and 236,000 patents were involved, up 3.1%; 393,000 valid registered trademarks were transferred for a combined 397,000 times, and 19,000 trademarks were licensed for a combined 27,000 times.