On February 24, the State Intellectual Property Office released top ten provinces (cities and districts) listed on the granted invention patents, namely, Guangdong, Beijing, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Shandong, Sichuan, Liaoning, Hubei, and Shaanxi. This is the second time of releasing that list by the SIPO.
China’s IP innovation has made new breakthrough in 2011. The total of granted invention patents in China, which can best reflect the development level of science and technology, amounted to 172,113, up by 27.4% year on year. Among them, the invention patents by patentees in China rose by 6.3 percentage points from the previous year and added up to 112,347, accounting for 65.3% of the total.
The conference also disclosed the top ten cities and enterprises listed on the granted invention patents, namely, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Guangzhou, Xi’an, Wuhan, Chengdu, Wuxi, and Changsha, and ZTE Corporation, Huawei Technologies and Foxconn ranked as the top three enterprises with the most granted invention patents in 2011.
According to introduction, the establishing of technological innovation system in which enterprises play a key role is accelerated; and those granted invention patents are mainly distributed in the fields such as high-tech, modern industry, living and medicine.
It shall be noted that by the end of 2011, the valid patents in which the patent technology and market value are both embodied had reached 351,288, surpassing the oversea invention patents in China for the first time.
