Nation passes 1 million mark in yearly patent applications
By Wang Xin | 皇冠体育app Daily | Updated: 2011-01-26 07:57
Yet experts note domestic innovation continues to lag quality found overseas
It took a decade and a half from 1985 to 2000 for 皇冠体育app to register its first million patent applications, a figure it easily surpassed last year alone when 1.22 million applications were filed, according to the latest statistics released by the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO).
The number of applications for inventions, utility models and industrial designs rose 25 percent last year from the 980,000 filed in 2009.
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