Followed by the United States, with 59,230 patent applications, Japan and South Korea ranked third and fourth.
The report pointed out that in 2020, the number of global patent applications increased by 4%, and the total number of applications reached 275,900, a record high.
China filed a patent application with WIPO from 1993.
It is reported that the number of applications in that year was only 1, and it was only 276 when it reached 1 999. Twenty-eight years later, this number has increased by a hundredfold.
On the enterprise side, China Huawei is far ahead with 5,464 applications, making it the largest application source in the world for four consecutive years.
Followed by South Korea's Samsung (3093), Japan's Mitsubishi (28/KOOC-0/0), South Korea's LG(2759), China's BOE (/KOOC-0/892) and China's OPPO (/KOOC-0/80/KOOC-0/).
Among the top ten, China enterprises occupy three positions, and more than half of them are mainly engaged in digital communication.
In addition, affected by the COVID-19 epidemic, the number of international trademark applications submitted through WIPO decreased by 0.6% to 63,800 in 2020, which was the first decline since the global financial crisis in 2008-2009. The number of industrial design applications has decreased for the first time since 2006, with the range of 15% to 18580.
According to the World Intellectual Property Report, the number of global patent applications has increased more than the global GDP in the past decade. China Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. has been the largest application source for the fourth consecutive year. Among the top ten universities with the largest number of applicants, five are from China. In terms of fields, computer technology accounts for the largest proportion of global patent applications, followed by digital communication and medical technology.
? Among the patents applied by China, Huawei ranked first with 5,464. It is understood that this is the fourth consecutive year that Huawei has become the largest application source. Among the top ten universities with the largest number of applicants, five are from China. In terms of fields, computer technology accounts for the largest proportion of global patent applications, followed by digital communication and medical technology.
? According to the data of Prospective Industry Research Institute, as of the end of February 2020, the distribution of patent applications in China's intelligent hardware industry is as follows, among which G Physics accounts for the highest proportion, accounting for 45.75%, followed by H Electric, accounting for 35. 18%, and the cumulative proportion of patent applications in these two fields reaches 80.93%. It can be seen that the fields of physics and electricity are the most important patent technology directions in the intelligent hardware industry.