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February 5, 2009, Thursday
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THE number of international patent applications granted in China last year moved it from the seventh largest in the patent world in 2007 to the sixth, an intellectual property official said yesterday.
The country overtook Britain in the ratings, the State Intellectual Property Office Director Tian Lipu said, citing the World Intellectual Property Organization.
The United States, Japan, Germany, the Republic of Korea and France took the first five places.
In 2008, China filed 6,089 patent applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty, up 11.9 percent over the previous year, he told a meeting at Zhuhai, a coastal city in southern China's Guangdong Province.
The PCT is an international pact that allows patent protection of an invention in each of a large number of its contracting states.
Applicants can file an "international" patent application in their own country's patent office or with the WIPO international bureau.
According to the WIPO, 139 states have signed the treaty so far.
"It is also very exciting that a Chinese company filed the most applications among companies from all PCT contracting states for the first time," Tian said.
China's IT firm Huawei filed 1,737 PCT patent applications last year, eight applications more than Japan's Panasonic.
"I think this showed that the innovation capability of the country," Tian said.
Enterprises also played an active role in domestic patent applications. Half of the 194,000 patent applications for inventions were handed in by enterprises last year, he said.
About 40,500 enterprises submitted patent applications last year, up 23.9 percent over 2007.
The country overtook Britain in the ratings, the State Intellectual Property Office Director Tian Lipu said, citing the World Intellectual Property Organization.
The United States, Japan, Germany, the Republic of Korea and France took the first five places.
In 2008, China filed 6,089 patent applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty, up 11.9 percent over the previous year, he told a meeting at Zhuhai, a coastal city in southern China's Guangdong Province.
The PCT is an international pact that allows patent protection of an invention in each of a large number of its contracting states.
Applicants can file an "international" patent application in their own country's patent office or with the WIPO international bureau.
According to the WIPO, 139 states have signed the treaty so far.
"It is also very exciting that a Chinese company filed the most applications among companies from all PCT contracting states for the first time," Tian said.
China's IT firm Huawei filed 1,737 PCT patent applications last year, eight applications more than Japan's Panasonic.
"I think this showed that the innovation capability of the country," Tian said.
Enterprises also played an active role in domestic patent applications. Half of the 194,000 patent applications for inventions were handed in by enterprises last year, he said.
About 40,500 enterprises submitted patent applications last year, up 23.9 percent over 2007.
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