Some revealing statististics from SIPO



Applications 2004

110,000 patent applications.

588,000 trademark applications

Applications 2005
130,000 invention patents applications (50 % from multinationals headquartered in developed countries; patent applications from American enterprises will exceed 20,000)

Patent applications of companies from developed countries
93 % in electronic transmission
91 % of mobile telecommunications
90% audio and visual technologies
85 % semiconductors
69 % pharmaceuticals
60 % computing technologies

Percentage of Inventions

86 % from foreign companies are for inventions

18 % of patent applications from China are for inventions (see here)
0.03 % of Chinese enterprises own key technologies with intellectual property

About 99 % of Chinese enterprises have never applied for patents
60 % do not have their own trademarks.
China is ranked third in foreign trade, patented high technologies contribute only 2 percent of total foreign trade

Source Shanghai Daily

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