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New report: China patents the world's first

2014 promulgated by the world intellectual property organization in Geneva 16th World Intellectual property indicators report shows that global patent year for 2013 continued to grow strongly, mainly thanks to a double digit growth. 2.6 million patent applications around the world, some one-third from China, followed by the United States and Japan.

The 2014 World Intellectual property indicators report is an annual report published by the world intellectual property organization, primarily based on the previous year statistics and analysis of applications for intellectual property rights worldwide. This year's report shows that 2013, continued growth in global IP applications, including patent applications grew by 9%, trademark applications grew by 6.4%, applications for industrial designs 2.5%, applications for new varieties of plants 6.3%. Director-General of the world intellectual property organization Francis?

Gao Rui points out that global growth in patent applications was mainly due to China's contribution. "2nd I want to say is that these increases are mainly attributable to China's performance. It's not fresh anymore, is true of the past few years, only now it had become more and more important that China already far ahead the world in applications for intellectual property rights. China's patent application, trademark and design applications are the largest in the world. ”

Gao Rui also pointed out that global IP application trend reflects a broader picture of the economy, such as China and the United States particularly strong growth in the amount of applications for intellectual property rights, while Europe and Japan declined.

Judging from the patent applications worldwide in 2013, about 2.57 million patent applications were submitted, with China more than 820,000 pieces, 32.1% per cent of total world; United States more than 570,000 pieces, 22.3%. Japan approximately 328,000, while the share of the European Patent Office in the world to 5.8%.

From patent application categories, highest proportion of computer technology, accounting for 7.6% of the total, followed by the electrical and mechanical, measurement, digital communications and medical technologies. From a national view, Switzerland main application of drug patents, Russia mostly food chemical patents, France and Germany are mainly transport-related patents, while in China, Korea and the United States and the United Kingdom are mainly of computer technology patents. The latest data also showed that over the past decade, new technologies for energy-related applications rose nearly four times, such as solar power, fuel cells, wind power, geothermal, etc. Francis? Gao Rui believes that Chinese patent applications directly related to the rapid growth and transformation of China's economic structure. "From all the signs we can see that China's performance in this area is very active, and too much. Strategically speaking, China has already begun from ' made in China ' to ' created in China ', transition, transition from a manufacturing to a knowledge-intensive industry, in which the intellectual property will play an important role. ”

From the perspective of trademark filings, also ranked first in China, 1.88 million, followed by United States 480,000 pieces, the EU is 320,000. Also see from the category over the past decade, and advertising, business and management application for service categories are the largest category, followed by relevant categories of merchandise and clothing and with scientific, photographic, measuring instruments, recording equipment, computer software and related merchandise categories.

In terms of industrial design applications in 2013, global growth slowed, China's share of world total 53% applications. Reports also show that new plant varieties applications filed worldwide in 2013 set new records, received a total of about 15,200 applications, 6.3% growth, 1.6% growth is much higher than the previous year. Among them, the EU accepted most of the applications, 3,296, is Ukraine 1544, 1510.