Chinese Patent Filings Show Uptick in January 2020
February 25, 2020
The China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) recently released January 2020 intellectual property statistics. There were 165,000 invention patent applications filed; 301,000 utility model patent applications filed; and 67,000 design patents filed. Annualized, the invention patent statistics would indicate a 41% increase over 2019, in which 1.401 million invention patent applications were filed. However, this uptick is unlikely to continue due to COVID-19 related business closures in February 2020.
CNIPA also granted 28,000 invention patents; 126,000 utility model patents; and 57,000 design patents in January 2020.
On the trademark side, there were 779,000 filings in January 2020.
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