Wipo released the world intellectual property indicators 2022 report on 21 november at local time. The report summarizes the development status of global intellectual property claims in 2021. According to the report, in 2021, china registered a record high in the number of applications for overseas production。
In the patent area
In 2021, 3. 4 million patent applications were submitted globally, of which the state intellectual property administration of china received 1. 59 million patent applications in 2021, the highest number in the world. The number of active patents in china reached 3. 6 million, more than the united states became the country with the largest number of valid patents in 2021。
(global share of patent applications, 2021)
According to the report, the number of applications filed by chinese applicants abroad increased significantly in 2021. This also places our country in the third place in the world, up from last year's number of overseas patent applications. The number of overseas patent applications in china increased by 16. 2 per cent in 2021 compared to 2020。
(statistical chart of countries ' overseas patent applications, 2021)
The trademark area
In 2021, there were approximately 13. 9 million trademark applications globally, covering 18. 1 million categories. The largest number of applications was made by the national intellectual property administration of china, accounting for about 9. 5 million by category。
In the statistics on overseas trademark applications, china ranked 2 million overseas trademark applications as the second most active country of origin. In 2021, applicants from china alone accounted for more than half (53. 2 per cent) of united states non-resident trademark applications. In addition, in the case of eupo, 67. 8 per cent of non-resident applications came from three countries: china (29. 6 per cent), the united states (23 per cent) and the united kingdom (15. 2 per cent). In addition to the number of applications for overseas trademarks in the united states patent office and eupo, chinese applicants are active in the top 20 patent boards. Of the total number of applications received, applicants from china accounted for about 16-29 per cent of the total number of applications。
(2021 statistical chart of non-resident declarations by source of applicant)
The field of industrial design
In 2021, approximately 1. 2 million applications for industrial designs were submitted globally, including 1. 5 million designs. Of these, the applications processed by the state intellectual property administration of china included 805,710 visual designs, representing 53. 2 per cent of the world's total. China is also the country with the largest number of effective registrations in effective industrial designs worldwide (2. 6 million)。
(statistical chart of the number of industrial designs for 10 patent recipients up to 2021)
In the case of applications for industrial designs abroad, we have also achieved good results, with applicants from china having about 1. 5 million industrial designs, the highest in the world. In 2021, chinese applicants held the largest number of patent applications abroad for the same appearance of design, with a total of 726,952 applications, representing an annual growth rate of 24. 5 per cent. Over the past 10 years, the number of applications submitted by china to overseas for equal appearance design has increased almost tenfold。
(trend in industrial design applications from the top five countries, 1883-2021)
At present, china is moving from a big country that has imported intellectual property to a big country that has created intellectual property rights, and there is a high rate of publicity about its intellectual property protection. Many companies and applicants are becoming more aware of the importance of overseas intellectual property protection and overseas intellectual property layout, which is a visualization of the concept of china’s innovation going to the world, and a response from the intellectual property industry to the outside world。
Innovation is the first driving force for development, and the protection of intellectual property rights is the protection of innovation. Innovation is endless and there is a long way to go. In the future, china knows that it will continue to build china's intellectual property power with the initial intent of “breaking the border barriers to intellectual property”。
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