Report on non-service patents inaugurated

The State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) of China recently released the first-ever report analyzing patent applications filed by private parties (a.k.a. non-service applications, opposite to service applications filed by organizations), summarized the status quo and trend of domestic non-service applications and grants on account of tons of statistical data, eventually offered its own set of proposals.

According to the report titled Analysis of Domestic Non-Service Patent Applications and Grants, domestic non-service patent applications have been forming an integral part of the patent repository throughout the two-decade development of the Chinese patent system.  Through last June, SIPO have received cumulative 1,837,071 non-service applications of the three types of patents, 98.5% of which are filed from home.  Of all domestic applications, most inventions are filed by organizations while private inventors command utility models and designs.  Most foreign applications are service ones.

Domestic patents granted have been on the rise in the past 20 years.  So have those non-service ones.  (by Wang Xiaohu/Liu Xiaobin)

我国首次发布非职务专利状况报告

本报讯　（通讯员王晓浒  刘晓斌北京报道）日前，国家知识产权局首次就我国非职务发明创造情况出具系统性分析报告，基于大量的统计数据给出了我国非职务专利的总体状况和发展变化情况并提出了具有针对性的建议。

这份名为《我国非职务专利申请授权状况分析》的报告指出，在我国专利事业20多年的发展历史上，国内非职务专利申请一直占有十分重要的地位。截至今年6月底，国家知识产权局累计受理国内外三种非职务专利申请183.7071万件，其中98.5%来自国内。在国内专利申请中，发明专利以职务申请为主，而实用新型和外观设计专利以非职务申请为主，在国外各种专利申请中，均以职务申请为主。

报告指出，20多年来，国内专利授权量总体呈逐步上升趋势，其中非职务授权量也相应上升。