According to an incomplete statistics, the state science and technology support project filed 1,355 patent applications in the genres of industrial and social development in 2007, 825 of which were inventions; harvested 327 patents in China, 159 of which inventions.In the agriculture genre, the project hauled in 341 patents in both China and overseas, filed 34 applications for new variety of plants and obtained 24 registrations. 2013-07-17