Numbers

• 9878    As of December 31, 2011, China cumulatively received 8,878 applications for new plant varieties from home and aboard, and granted 4,044, ranking the second among the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants in the application.
• 57,688    During the 11th five-year Plan, Wuhan filed 57,688 patent applications, obtained 29,246 patents, up 3.1 times and 3.59 times than that in 10th five-year plan.
  
• 17,100    In 2011, all levels courts in Guangdong province concluded 17,100 first-instance and second-instance IPR cases, accounting for 28% of the total in the nation.
  
• 185    Henan cracked 185 infringement cases, with a total value of 130 million yuan, and avoid economic losses of 80 million yuan during a special campaigning on cracking down IPR infringement launched by Henan public security organs in 2011.
  
• 2320    In 2011, Lanzhou city filed a historical high of 2,320 patent applications , up 570 (32.6%), according to the statistics of SIPO.
• 78.08%    At present, the E-filing rate of Jiangsu province reached 78.08%, up 4.08 percentage points than the average in 2011, according to Jiangsu IP Office.
• 10 million    In 2011, Xinjiang Patent Funds and Patent Application Grant Funds increased to 10 million yuan and 2 million yuan respectively with not less than 10% of future annual growth rate, so as to provide financial security for promoting the implementation of the IP Strategy.
  
• 8,734    In 2011, Chengdu High-tech Zone filed 8,734 patent applications, up 28.31%. Invention applications accounted for 2,869, up 80.78%. Company applicants filed 6,507, up 111.47%.
• 40 million    In 2011, based on their IPRs, 7 companies in Xiamen secured over 200 million yuan credit, 40 million yuan of which had already been granted.
• 61    In 2011, around the construction of Yunnan Innovation Plan, Yunnan province organized and implemented 60 major projects, broke through 62 key technology, researched and developed 61 major new products with independent IPR.
• 2,000    In 2011, only by commercializing 60 patents, Jiangsu province added 11.06 billion yuan in sales revenue. According to statistics, Jiangsu province cumulatively commercialized over 2,000 patents in the past two years. Value generated by high-tech  industry represented 33% of the province's GDP in 2011.
• 2,779    Recently, the Beijing IP Office and the Beijing Administration for Industry and Commerce established a credit information file system for 2,779 patent pilot entities and 120 patent model entities, making Beijing the first in the country in monitoring and sharing information of these entities.
• 43,900    By the end of December of 2011, China Patent Electronic Approval System was available for 32 departments of SIPO and 28 receiving branches with 43,900 registered users.
  
• 150    In 2011, SIPO carried out the 10 batches of nearly 150 student trainings for Vietnam, Cambodia, DPRK, the African Regional Industrial Property Organization and other developing countries and regional organizations.
  
• 26    As of the end of December of 2011, Patent Protection Regulation was issued in 26 provinces and 11 cities, 2 provinces and 3 vice-provincial cities issued patent protection measures.
  
• 17,000    According to the statistics, customs nationwide seized 17,000 batches of suspected infringing goods, examined and approved 3,532 IPR applications for recordation in 2011, 1,684 of which were from domestic IPR holders.
  
• 17,100    As of the end of December 2011, Yunan had filed 17,100 applications for trademark registration and added 10,200 registered trademarks to boost its total deposit to 54,800.
  
• 5,784    In 2011, Heilongjiang province filed 23,432 patent applications and obtained 12,236 patents, up 128% and 80.5% respectively. By the end of December 2011, Heilongjiang had housed 5,784 valid inventions, up 32.6%.
• 348,381    In 2011, Jiangsu filed 348,381 patent applications including 84,678 invention patent applications, up 47.69% and 68.35% respectively.
  
• 23,100    As of now, 25.8%, 23% and 14% of respective government agencies at three levels (province, city and county) Have made sure only licensed software running on their computers.  23,100 companies were listed in the objective of using only licensed software, 15,300 of which had achieved the target.
  
• 43,900    By the end of December of 2011, China Patent Electronic Approval System was available for 32 departments of SIPO and 28 receiving branches with 43,900 registered users.
• 104    By the end of December of 2011, there were 104 national IPR pilot model cities, 126 national IPR project pilot counties and 15 IPR pilot counties of traditional knowledge.
  
• 150    In 2011, SIPO carried out the 10 batches of nearly 150 student trainings for Vietnam, Cambodia, DPRK, Mongolia, the Gulf Cooperation Council Patent Office, the African Regional Industrial Property Organization and other developing countries and regional organizations.
  
• 26    As of the end of December of 2011, Patent Protection Regulation was issued in 26 provinces and 11 cities, 2 provinces and 3 vice-provincial cities issued patent protection measures.
  
• 17,000    According to the statistics, customs nationwide seized 17,000 batches of suspected infringing goods, examined and approved 3,532 IPR applications for recordation in 2011, 1,684 of which were from domestic IPR holders.
  
• 426    According to statistics, SIPO received a total of 426 requests for design patent evaluation reports. By the end of 2011, the responsible Design Examination Department had concluded 331 design patent evaluation reports, 23% of which ruling out patentability of the design.
  
• 176    In 2011, SIPO published the Promotion Plan for the Implementation of the National IP Strategy, which proposed 13 key tasks and 176 specific measures, promoting the implementation of the strategy.
• 52,708    From January to October, national courts newly received more than 52,708 IPR civil cases of first instance, up 42.2%.
• 43,900    By the end of December of 2011, China Patent Electronic Approval System was available for 32 departments of SIPO and 28 receiving branches with 43,900 registered users.
  
• 104    By the end of December of 2011, there were 104 national IPR pilot model cities, 126 national IPR project pilot counties and 15 IPR pilot counties of traditional knowledge.
• 150    In 2011, SIPO carried out the 10 batches of nearly 150 student trainings for Vietnam, Cambodia, DPRK, Mongolia, the Gulf Cooperation Council Patent Office, the African Regional Industrial Property Organization and other developing countries and regional organizations.
• 26    As of the end of December of 2011, Patent Protection Regulation was issued in 26 provinces and 11 cities, 2 provinces and 3 vice-provincial cities issued patent protection measures.
• 17,000    According to the statistics, customs nationwide seized 17,000 batches of suspected infringing goods, examined and approved 3,532 IPR applications for recordation in 2011, 1,684 of which were from domestic IPR holders.
• 50%    From January to November of 2011, patent applications from Guangxi increased by 50%. Invention patent applications rose by 62%. The two growth rates dwarfed the nation average by 4% and 22% respectively.
• 104,815    From January to October of 2011s, Guangdong province obtained 104,815 patents, 14,841 of which are invention patents, up 4.28% and 29.41% respectively, retaining its top position in the nation.
• 1.0749 million    As of the end of November 2011, Trademark Office under The State Administration for Industry and Commerce had examined 1.0749 million trademark registration applications and processed 30,400 trademark cases.
• 15,695    In 2011, Patent Reexamination Board under SIPO received 15,695 cases for reexamination and invalidation, 12,946 of which were for reexamination and 2,749 were for invalidation.
• 136.4    As of the first half of 2011, China had received a total of 1.364 millionpatent applications in the IT field.
• 2.37    As of the end of 2011, China housed 351,000 domestic invention patents, accounting for 50.4% of the total. China's mainland has 2.37 invention patents per ten thousand populations. 
• 3    As of now, 3 items from Xuchang (Henan province) were inducted into the state-level intangible cultural heritage. Jun porcelain companies filed a total of 838 patent applications.