In
2006, Applicants from China filed 3910 PCT applications
and made China the 8th largest country of origin of PCT
filings
According to WIPO’s report on February 7, 2007, applicants
from China, whose use grew by 56.8%, dislodged Switzerland
and Sweden to take the position of 8th largest country of
origin of PCT filings in 2006. The number of applications
from China in 2006 was 3910. The Republic of Korea, which
experienced 26.6% growth in 2006 as compared to 2005, overtook
the United Kingdom and France to become the 4th biggest
country of origin of PCT filings. The top 3 biggest countries
of origin are the United States of America (USA), Japan
and Germany.
Among
the 20 top filing companies, seven were from the USA, four
from Japan and three from Germany. Several companies join
the top 20 list, including Huawei (China), up 24 places
to 13th, Fujitsu (Japan), up 9 places to 15th, LG Electronics
(Republic of Korea) up 12 to 16th, and Hewlett-Packard (USA)
up 5 to 18th.
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In
2006, Applicants from China filed 1328 international trademark
applications and made China the 8th largest country of origin
of international trademark filings
According to WIPO’s report on March 15, 2007, WIPO received
36471 international trademark applications in 2006, and
the growth is 8.6%. In 2006, China took the position of
8th largest country of origin of the international application
filings. The top 3 biggest countries of origin are Germany,
France and the United States of America (USA).
The
number of applications from Germany was 6552 which took
18% of the total numbers, and the number of applications
from France and the USA took 10.7% and 8.6% respectively.
The number of applications from China last year was 1328
which took 3.6% of the total.
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In
2006, number of Chinese Patent Applications exceeds 573,000
According to the statistics of The State Intellectual Property
Office of The People’s Republic of China, the number of
patent application filings of 2006 exceeded 573000, and
the growth is 20.3%. In 2006, the number of the three types
of patent application filings, i.e. patent for invention,
patent for utility model, and patent for industrial design,
was 210,000, 161,000 and 201,000 respectively, of which
the growth was 21.4%, 15.6% and 23.2%. In 2006, the number
of patents for invention granted to domestic applicants
was 25000 (the growth was 21.1%, and took 43.4% of the total
number of patent applications for inventions), and that
to international applicants was 33,000 (the growth was 0.3%).
The
average time period for the Patent Office to conclude a
case of application for patent of invention is 22 months,
that for patent of utility model is 9 months, and that for
patent of industrial design is 6 months. The average time
period for the Patent Re-examination Board to conclude a
case of patent review or invalidation procedure is 18 months
and 13 months respectively.
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In
2006, number of Chinese Trademark Applications exceeds 700,000,
and the Total number of Chinese Trademark Applications exceeds
2,760,000
In
2006, the Chinese Trademark Office received totally 700000
applications for registrations among which 260000 applications
were approved for registration. The total number of Chinese
trademark application filings exceeded 2760000, and the
total number of well-known trademarks recognized by the
Chinese Trademark Office is 180.
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Beijing
Has Added Three New Intellectual Property Tribunals At Local
Courts Since March 6, 2007
Since
March 6, 2007, three district people's courts in Beijing
have been empowered to hear intellectual property civil
cases. Previously, there were two district level people’s
courts that were appointed by Beijing high court to have
the power to hear intellectual property cases.
According
to the China Civil Procedure Law, only intermediate courts
and above intermediate level courts have the power to hear
intellectual property cases. These three new intellectual
property tribunals will have the authorization to hear intellectual
property cases that were not relate to patent, new plant
varieties and integrate circuit design, and the amount of
dispute in trademark, copyright, unfair competition and
technology contract cases is limited to 2,500,000 Yuan and
below.
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