According to information from it house on 6 march, according to press reports, local time on 6 march, wipo published data on intellectual property applications for 2025。
The data show that the number of international patent applications submitted through the wipo patent cooperation treaty in 2025 amounted to 2,759,000, an increase of 0. 7 per cent over the same period and a second consecutive year. China continues to be among the highest in the world with 73,718 applications, an increase of 5. 3 per cent over the previous year. Applications from the united states, japan, the republic of korea and germany ranked second to fifth。
Digital communications is the highest category of applications and semiconductor is one of the fastest growing areas。
According to the director-general of the world intellectual property organization, deng thomson, digital technology continues to shape the global innovation landscape, artificial intelligence is becoming the newest engine of growth, and the world intellectual property organization will work to make the global intellectual property services system more efficient and digital。
It house noted that the data disclosed by the national intellectual property agency showed that, by the end of 2025, there were 5. 32 million patents valid for inventions (excluding hong kong and australia), and 16 patents for high-value inventions per 10,000 people. The country has 22,922 million patents for high-value inventions (excluding hong kong/australia), representing 43. 1 per cent of the total number of patents for effective inventions in the country. The country's strategic and emerging industries have an effective domestic invention patent of 15. 34 million, representing about 70 per cent of the total number of high-value invention patents。
Among them, effective invention patents in areas such as information technology management methods, computer technology, medical technology, etc. Are growing fastest, artificial intelligence patents are among the highest in the world, and key core technology patents in future industries such as quantum technology, biomanufacture, brain interfaces, and sixth generation communications have been put in place, which have contributed significantly to high-level technological self-reliance。
