During the 11th Five Year Plan period, SIPO received 1.451 million patent applications for invention, 1.289 million for utility model, 1.554 million for design, which were 2.6 times, 2.4 times and 3.1 times respectively more than those of the 10th Five-Year Plan. The 36,000 PCT applications had 4.3 times advantage.
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