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China Utility Model Patent Application Filings Up 29% in 2020; Foreign-Originated Chinese Invention Patent Application Filings Down 3%
Saturday, May 8, 2021
In the newly released China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) 2020 Annual Report (国家知识产权局2020年度报告) the number of invention patent applications filed in China in 2020 was 1.497 million, a year-on-year increase of 6.9%. Among them, there were 1.345 million domestic invention patent applications filed, accounting for 89.8% of the total, a year-on-year increase of 8.1%; there were 152,000 foreign invention patent applications filed in China, accounting for 10.2% of the total, a year-on-year decrease of 3.0%.
Note China had ceased publishing filing data in December 2020 and this is the first report of filing data since then. While the number of invention patent applications filings is up in 2020, CNIPA is budgeting for a potential 50+% drop over the next few years as China transitions from quantity to quality of applications.