In 2016, the number of international patent applications in China increased by 44.7%

Source: Xinhua news agency, March 23, 2017 Xinhua news agency, Beijing, March 22 (reporter Wang Bin) reporter recently learned from the State Intellectual Property Office that in 2016, China's international patent applications reached more than 43100, an increase of 44.7% over the previous year, ranking fourth in the world in terms of international trademark registration applications With structural optimization and power transformation, China's economy is entering the "fast lane" of innovation driven development Frances Gauri, director general of the world intellectual property organization, said that China has made remarkable achievements in intellectual property, and has made great progress in the process from "made in China" to "created in China" "Innovation has become the first driving force for China to comprehensively promote supply side structural reform." Shen Changyu, director of the State Intellectual Property Office, said that the Chinese government takes innovation driven development as a national strategy and attaches great importance to the role of giving full play to the incentives and safeguards of the intellectual property system By the end of 2016, the number of domestic invention patents in China had reached 1.103 million, which is the third country in the world with more than one million domestic invention patents after the United States and Japan According to the 2016 international patent application data released by the world intellectual property organization, China's Huawei Technology Co., Ltd and ZTE Co., Ltd rank in the top of the total number of applications "It is worth noting that the problem of" many patents but not excellent, large patents but not strong "still exists The number of patents in some key areas is not dominant and needs to be strengthened." Gong Yalin, director of the planning and Development Department of the State Intellectual Property Office, said that in the next step, China will comprehensively promote the quality improvement of all links in the whole chain of patent creation, application, agency, examination, protection and application in accordance with the working concept of "quality wins and quantity layout" The reporter learned that in 2016, digital communication, computer technology, electrical machinery and other fields were in the forefront of all international patent applications.