Numbers

• 2018-07-18 781,000

  The 4th National Court Conference ont Intellectual Property Trial  announced that courts nationwide received 813,000 civil, administrative and criminal cases concerning intellectual property from 2013 to 2017 and concluded 781,000. 

• 2018-07-18 168,900

  According to data released by the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board (TRAB) of SIPO, in 2017, the total number of trademark review cases decided by the board reached 168,900 and 9,310 subpoenas were issued to the TRAB by the first-instance  court, making the percentage of challenges out of all the TRAB decisions last year 5.5%.

• 2018-07-18 240

  Chinese smartphone manufacturer OPPO, has completed its largest patent transaction to date. It is reported that OPPO has acquired more than 20 patent portfolios from audio giant Dolby, consisting of 240 audio and video technologies.

• 2018-07-18 218.3

  According to the data in the Evaluation Report on the Status of Intellectual Property Development in China in 2017, the comprehensive development index of intellectual property of the country was 218.3 (100 in 2010), up 9.0% over the last year, maintaining a relatively high growth rate.

• 2018-07-18 230

  Recently, the 12th Beijing Invention & Innovation Competition Awards was held in Beijing, with a total of 230 awards and 569 finalists selected in the competition.

• 2018-07-18 17

  The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) issued the Report on Global Innovation Index (GII) in 2018 on July 10, revealing that China ranks 17th, cutting into the top 20 most innovative economies for the first time.

• 2018-07-18 13%

  Xiaomi was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on July 9, making it the first pilot innovative enterprise for the same share with different rights in the Hong Kong capital market. Its stock price increased by 13.1% and the market value reached 425.15 billion Hong Kong dollars the next day. 

• 2018-06-29 6.3 Trillion

  In 2030, 5G will directly produce 6.3 trillion yuan in total output, 2.9 trillion yuan in economic added value and eight million job opportunities.

• 2018-06-29 10 Billion

  In recent years, some 400 enterprises in Zhongguancun Science Park of Beijing have obtained 10 billion yuan of financing by pledging their patents for over 600 times, taking up over 85% of the number of such proceedings and the total value citywide.

• 2018-06-29 375

  Since its commencement of operation on March 22, 2017, China Zhengzhou Creative Industry Intellectual Property Rights Center have pre-examined 375 industrial design patent applications and approved all of them. The approval rate is 100%.

• 2018-06-29 4%

  As shown in the 2018 global software survey issued by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), the global PC software piracy ratio dropped to 37%, down 2% from 2016. In China, piracy ration declined 4% from 2014 to 2016.

• 2018-06-29 9,329

  From January to May, the departments for Industry and Commerce   and Markets Regulation nationwide handled 9,329 cases of trademark violation (up 13.01%) with a total value of proceeds of 176 million yuan (up 117.79%). Among the cases, 8,130 (up 1.58%) involved trademark infringement with a total value of proceeds of 158 million (up 116.28%).

• 2018-04-25 110,234

  In 2017, Hubei province filed 110,234 patent applications, up 15.84%. There were 51,569 invention patent applications, up 17.77%.

• 2018-04-25 100,400

  As of the end of 2017, Shanghai was in possession of 100,400 valid invention patents, up 18.1%. The invention patent ownership for per ten thousand people reached 41.5, remaining at No.2 in the country.

• 2018-04-25 370,000

  As of the end of 2017, Hebei province was in possession of 370,000 valid registered trademarks, up 15%.

• 2018-04-25 10.7%

  As shown by recently released "2017 China Patent Census", 10.7% surveyed patentees encounter patent infringement, down 7.4% from last year.

• 2018-04-25 48,882

  China filed 48,882 PCT international patent applications in 2017, jumping to No.2 in the world, up 13.4%.

• 2017-01-25 Indexes of IP Protection and Utilization in the 13th Five-year Plan Period

  China's invention patent ownership will increase to 12 per 10,000 people.

  The number of PCT patent applications will increase to 60, 000.

  The total number of applications for plant varieties will increase to 25, 000.

  The number of national registration of copyright will increase to 2.2 million.

  The amount of IP pledge financing of one year will increase to 180 billion yuan.

  The number of computer software copyright registration will increase to 440,000.

  The number of valid invention patents yielded per 100 million yuan sales revenue by the manufacturing enterprises above designated size will reach to 0.7.

  The export volume of IP royalties will rise to 10 billion  USD during the period of 2016-2020. 
  The average annual growth in revenue of IP service industry will be 20%. 
  The degree of public satisfaction on IP protection will increase to 80 percent.

• 2017-01-25 Data of Main IP Achievements in the 12th Five-year Plan Period

  China's invention patent ownership increased to 6.3 per 10,000 people.

  The number of PCT patent applications increased to 30,000.

  The total number of applications for plant varieties ranked to the second place of the world.

  The number of national registration of copyright increased by 95.9%, and the registration number of computer software copyright increased by 282.5%.

• 2016-12-21 17,175 As of now, Qingdao owns 17,175 living inventions, each 10,000 citizens own 18.99 living inventions. Meanwhile, 40,000 invention applications were filed annually in recent years.
• 2016-12-21 706 Three years ago, Hubei launched the IPR demonstration enterprises projects. Up to now, 20 provincial IPR demonstration enterprises and 706 to-be IPR demonstration enterprises have been acknowledged.
• 2016-12-21 963 Million As of the end of September 2016, more than 20 financial agencies in Shaanxi province have issued 963 million yuan IPR mortgage to 163 enterprises, increased by 19.5%.
• 2016-12-21 96 Statistics released by Beijing Shi jingshan People's court that the court has received 283 IPR civil cases on animation games from 2013 to October 2016. 96 of which were handled in the first ten months in 2016.
• 2016-12-21 80% Latest numbers from Yiwu IP Office show that IPR civil cases handled by Yiwu court system increased by 53% and 172% in the last two years. Meanwhile, 80% of cases have been settled through conciliation.
• 2016-12-21 24 In recent years, Fujian provinces witnessed fast development of patent agency industry. As of now, Fujian owns 24 patent agencies and 207 patent agents.
• 2016-11-02 147 Recently, the report on evaluating the innovation capability of National High-tech Zone was released in Beijing. The report shows that, as of the end of 2015, 147 zones maintain a steady growth in innovation.
• 2016-11-02 1.9 In 2015, the authorized inventions patents per 10 thousand people and the effective invention patents of High-tech Zone in China were separately 8.9 times and 8.5 times of the national average; the number of patents per 10,000 employees is 1.9 times than that of per 10,000 resident population in Silicon Valley.
• 2016-11-02 1,433 On October 21, the 2016 Annual Awards Ceremony of  Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation was held in Beijing. 51 award-winning scientists obtained 1,433 patents, 28.1 per capita.
• 2016-11-02 200 Recently, the second national public entrepreneurship and innovation week came to an end. About 200 projects involving cutting-edge technologies were presented at the Beijing main expo, covering artificial intelligence, new materials, biotechnology,  intelligent robots and Internet+.
• 2016-11-02 184.4 Zhongguancun index was released in the second national innovation and entrepreneurshiping week. In 2015, the Zhongguancun entrepreneurial innovation environment index increased by 184.4 over the previous year, innovation ability index increased by 73.1, the internationalization index increased by 158.3.
• 2016-10-12 7.04% In 2015, China filed 6,067 registered commanity design applications in the EU, increased by 56.7 times from 107 in 2003, accounting for 7.04% of the total applications received by EU in 2015.
• 2016-10-12 56 Billion Yuan In 2015, more than 2,000 companies across the nation have cumulatively secured a loan of 56 billion yuan by pledging their IPRs.
• 2016-10-12 35,844 In 2015, China handed 35,844 patent administration cases, an increase of 46.4% over the same period of last year, creating a sound market environment for innovators.
• 2016-10-12 14,000 At the China Intangible Culture Heritage Expo held in Jinan, 12 events including academic output of ICH, ICH derivatives, together with 14,000 ICH works were on shown on the Expo. The number of visitors reached 3,800.
• 2016-10-12 4.8 Trillion Yuan The Chinese Academy of Science put forwarded that it plans to double the sale revenue from IPR by 2020. The newly increased sales revenue of companies would surpass 4.8 trillion yuan from S&T commercialization.
• 2016-10-12 1.09 Billion Yuan Recently, at the Lanzhou Hi-Tech Expo, a total of 203 S&T acchievements agreements including 136 achievement commercialization ones were signed by 110 companies, with a total value of 1.09 billion yuan.
• 2016-10-12 20,000 In recent years, the Lenovo Group obtained 20,000 patents via purchasing and acquisition in the global market. It has obtained more than 2,000 patents in the U.S. market.
• 2016-08-31 2.1 Trillion Yuan

  Recently, the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radion, Film and Television of China published the Report of Analysis of Press and Publication Industry. According to the report, over 2.1 trillion Yuan was gained in China's press and publication industry in 2015, with a year-on-year growth of 8.5%.

• 2016-08-31 68.8% In the first half of 2016, Zhejiang obtained 14,700 invention patents, with a growth of 46.5%compared with 2015. 68.8% of the total were from enterprises, far more than 2015.
• 2016-08-31 7.36 In the Opinions of Liaoning Government Construction of Intellectual Property Powerhouse under the New Circumstances, Liaoning has a target that the number of valid invention patents obtained by each 10,000 heads of population reaches to 7.36, over 20% industrial enterprises at national scale hold invention patents, and the number of international applications applied through PCT reaches to 550 by 2020.