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Article: China reports marked increase in patent applications
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- April 25, 2003
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China reports marked increase in patent applications
BEIJING, April 25 (Xinhua) -- China has received more than 1.6
million patent applications from home and overseas since 1985, with
the annual increase rate exceeding 20 percent, said latest
statistics from the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO).
The number of such applications registered in the first quarter
this year was 38 percent more than the same period of last year,
according to a source with the office on Friday.
Tian Lipu, deputy director of SIPO, said China only registered
several thousand patent applications in 1985 when China's patent law
took effect.
Thanks to China's great efforts in protecting ...