On February 24, GAN Shaoning, vice director of the State Intellectual Property Office released the top ten provinces (cities) (excluding Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan) listed on the granted invention patents: namely, Guangdong, Beijing, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Shandong, Sichuan, Liaoning, Hubei, and Shaanxi. GAN also gave an introduction of the overall situation of national granted invention patents in 2011.
According to introduction made by GAN, China’s IP innovation has made new breakthrough in 2011 and realized a good start of intellectual property development of the 12th five-year plan: the total of granted invention patents in China amounted to 172,113, up by 27.4% year on year, in which 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 top ten cities (excluding municipality directly under the central government) listed on the granted invention patents are: Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Guangzhou, Xi’an, Wuhan, Chengdu, Wuxi, and Changsha. ZTE Corporation, Huawei Technologies and Foxconn ranked as the top three enterprises with the most granted invention patents in 2011.
The main characteristics of the granted invention patents in 2011 indicated by the list are: 1. the establishing of technological innovation system in which enterprises play a key role is accelerated; 2. those granted invention patents are mainly distributed in the fields such as high-tech, modern industry, living and medicine in accordance with national development strategy, thus promoting the economic development and technological innovation transformation, and 3. the role that invention patents play in bracing the national economic development is becoming increasingly significant. It shows that China's economic development provides an important basis for the development of the patent system, that the patent system has greatly stimulated and protected technological innovation and promoted China's economic development, which provides a strong support for the main development line - "adjusting structure and changing the way”.
In addition, it is also learned 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. The invention patents per 10,000 people in China (excluding Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan) have reached 237,000, a key step towards the aim of 3.3 invention patents per ten thousand people schemed by China’s 12th five-year plan.
