BEIJING, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) – China saw surging invention patent applications in the first ten months of this year despite the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Xinhua-run Shanghai Securities News reported on Wednesday.
Data showed that the number of invention patent applications in China amounted to 1.23 million from January to October, up 11.2 percent year on year.
The country received 55,000 international patent applications through the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) during the period, up 23.5 percent from the same period of last year.
China has achieved all-round development in the intellectual property rights (IPR) sector with remarkable results, said Shen Changyu, head of the National Intellectual Property Administration (NIPA), at the opening ceremony of the 12th China International Patent Fair, which kicked off on Wednesday in Dalian, northeast China's Liaoning Province.
According to Shen, China will continue efforts to strengthen the high-level IPR protection and promote the efficient development of the IPR sector.
(Edited by Yang Yifan with Xinhua Silk Road, yangyifan@xinhua.org)
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