2013年中国共授权发明专利20.8万件

       China's State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) in Beijing released the data of invention patents in 2013 on February 20. In the year of 2013, SIPO accepted 825,000 invention patent applications, up 26.3 percent year on year, ranking the first in the world three years in a row; China granted 208,000 invention patents. Among them, 144,000 were domestic, same as the year before. Up to the end of 2013, the valid domestic (excluding Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) invention patents totaled 587,000, amount to 4.02 per 10,000 people, 2 years ahead of the goal of the national“12th Five-Year Plan”. “The structure of application and patents granted constantly improved, the qualities of patent application gradually enhanced. Companies gradually built up their status in IPR creation,” said a relevant principal of SIPO.
       The top ten ranking of provinces (municipalities) and companies are quite attractive to the public. Among the top ten provinces having granted the most invention patents in 2013, Beijing
for the first time surpasses Guangdong, ranking the number one with 20,695 patents; Guangdong and Jiangsu occupies the second and third place; Zhejiang, Shanghai, Shandong and Sichuan stands the forth to the seventh; Anhui is listed for the first time, ranking the eighth; Shaanxi and Hubei win the last two spots of the list. In the top ten enterprise ranking, Huawei still ranks the top, followed by Sinopec; the rest are ZTE, CNPC (China National Petroleum Corporation), Oceans King Lighting, SMIC (Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp), BYD, Huawei Terminal, Chery Automobile and CNOOC (China National Offshore Oil Corporation). It's worth mentioning that it's the first time for CNPN, Ocean King Lighting to be listed among top ten.
      SIPO released the top ten provinces (municipalities) having the most cumulative invention patents up to the end of 2013. They are Guangdong (95,475), Beijing (85,434), Jiangsu (62,112), Shanghai (48,370), Zhejiang (43,275), Shandong (27,996), Sichuan (16,677), Liaoning (16,092), Hubei (15,235) and Shaanxi (14,394). In the year of 2013, SIPO accepted 22,924 PCT applications, an increase of 15.0 % year on year; 15 provinces (municipalities) reached over 100 PCT applications. Among them, Guangdong made 11,525, ranking the number one; Beijing, Jiangsu, Shanghai and Zhejiang stood the second to the fifth; the total of those accounted
three forth of the whole.
      2月20日，中国国家知识产权局在北京发布了2013年中国发明专利授权量的有关数据。2013 年，中国共受理发明专利申请82.5万件，同比增长26.3%，连续3年位居世界首位；2013年中国共授权发明专利20.8万件。其中，国内发明专利授权14.4万件，与去年持平。截至2013年底，国内（不含港澳台）有效发明专利拥有量共计58.7万件。每万人口发明专利拥有量达到4.02件，提前两年完成国家“十二五”规划纲要设定的目标。国家知识产权局相关负责人表示，中国专利申请和授权结构不断优化，专利申请质量逐步提升，企业知识产权创造主体地位逐步稳固。
    在中国国家知识产权局此次公布的信息中，2013年中国省（区市）和企业发明专利授权量前十的排名尤为引人关注。在发明专利授权量排名前十位的省份中，北京首次超过广东，以2.0695 万件位居榜首，广东、江苏分列“榜眼”和“探花”，浙江、上海、山东、四川分列四至七位，首次跻身前十的安徽位列第八，陕西、湖北分别居第九、第十位；在国内企业发明专利授权排名上，华为公司依然雄居榜首，中石化紧随其后，第三位至第十位依次为中兴通讯、 中石油、海洋王照明、中芯国际、比亚迪、华为终端、奇瑞汽车、中海油。其中，中石油、海洋王照明、中海油 3 家能源企业首次进入榜单，表现抢眼。
     中国国家知识产权局还首次发布了截至2013年底，中国发明专利拥有量排名前十位的省（区市），依次为：广东（9.5475万件）、北京（8.5434万件）、江苏（6.2112万件）、上海（4.8370万件）、浙江（4.3275万件）、 山东（2.7996万件）、四川（1.6677万件）、辽宁（1.6092万件）、湖北（1.5235万件）、陕西（1.4394万件）。此外，2013年，中国国家知识产权局共受理《专利合作条约》（PCT）国际专利申请2.2924万件， 同比增长15.0%。2013年，PCT 国际专利申请超过100件的省（区市）达到15个。其中，广东申请1.1525万件，居首位。北京、江苏、上海、浙江分列二至五位，上述5省市的PCT 申请量占全国申请总量的3/4。