CCTV News (News Network): April 26, 2025 is the 25th World Intellectual Property Day. The reporter learned from the State Intellectual Property Office that the quantity and quality of my country's patents have steadily improved. In 2024, the effective amount of domestic invention patents in my country reached 4.756 million, and the number of international patent applications for PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty) and the number of Hague system design applications for both jumped to the world. The number of effective invention patents in strategic emerging industries reached 1.349 million, with the largest number of invention patents in the world in the world, including the "new three" types of invention patents for electric vehicles, lithium batteries and solar cells.
For the first time, my country completed the inventory and value analysis of 1.349 million existing patents from more than 2,700 universities and research institutions across the country, and conducted accurate docking and matching push with 450,000 enterprises.
my country's patent examination expressway covers 84 countries, and cooperates with the World Intellectual Property Organization to build 202 technology and innovation support centers in China, relying on global patent information resources to help domestic innovation and development.
