IPR: Patent applications reach record
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-04-19 14:55
China accepted 476,264 patent applications and 830,000 trademark applications
last year, an all time high in the past 18 years, according to a national press
conference held in Beijing on Wednesday.
Patent applications grew 34.6
percent on a year-on-year basis, while trademark applications increased by 10
percent, Zhang Qin, vice director of the State Intellectual Property Office,
said at a press conference on intellectual property right protection.
China leads the world in trademark applications for four consecutive years,
Zhang said.
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