On March 26, 2024, China’s National Intellectual Property Administration released its 2024 budget (国家知识产权局2024年部门预算). Highlights includes 5.76 billion RMB (~$700 million USD) for patent acceptance and approval; CNIPA expects to examine over 2.026 million patent applications with an examination period of less than 16 months; and total new applications (including invention and utility model applications) is expected to be equal or greater than 4.79 million applications.
Category: Statistics
China International Patent Filings Down 0.6% in 2023 But Maintains Lead as Top Filer
According to data released by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on March 7, 2024, China filed 69,610 Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applications in 2023 – a small decrease of 0.6% from the previous year. This is the first year-on-year decrease from China since 2002. The United States came in second with 55,678 applications, which represents a 5.3% drop on 2022.
China’s Supreme People’s Court Releases Work Report to the National People’s Congress
On March 8, 2024 at the 14th National People’s Congress, Zhang Jun, President of the Supreme People’s Court (SPC), submitted the SPC’s Work Report summarizing the accomplishments of the past year. With respect to intellectual property, the Report stated 490,000 intellectual property cases were concluded, and punitive damages were applied to 319 cases.
China’s IP Tribunal of the Supreme People’s Court Releases Statistics and Top 10 Influential Cases for 5-Year Anniversary of Founding
On February 22, 2024, the IP Tribunal (IPC) of the Supreme People’s Court released some statistics and the Top 10 Influential Cases for the 5-year anniversary of its founding. The IP Tribunal is somewhat similar to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Interesting data points include: More than 1/5 of cases have foreign-related factors including 1,678 with foreign parties and concluded 1,198 of these cases; There were 2,977 administrative appeal cases related to invalidation in 5 years; …