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Patent Applications Soar

22 November 2012

Patent Applications Soar
According to data released on China’s State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) website, SIPO received 828,328 patent applications in 2008, an increase of 19.4% over 2007 applications.

Of the total applications, 289,838 were for design patents and 225,586 were for utility model patents, both of which have 10-year life spans. Twenty-year invention patent applications totaled 289,838.

SIPO reported that 717,144 of the applications were from domestic sources and that 111,184 came from other countries.

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