SIPO logged its filing meter at 1.222 million,marking the first one million filings acc-
epted by the Chinese patent authority within a single calendar year in 2010,815,000 patents
were granted,up 25.2% and 40% respectively.Deemed as nice surprices,China filed 13,000 pat-
ent over PCT in 2010,up 61.3%.
In 2010,China received 391,000 invention applications,up 24.1%,among which,293,000 were
from home including HongKong,Macao and Taiwan,representing 25.1% of the total and up 15.3%.
The 391,000 are further broken dowan into 224,000 or 76.5% services ones,and 69,000 or 23.5%
nonservices.In 2010,China granted 135,000 inventions,up 5.5%.55,000 from abroad,representing
40.7%.