What Did The Patent Landscape of China Look Like?

What Did the Patent Landscape of China Look Like in 2021?

This chart shows the number of applications filed and the number of grants from these applications. Grant rate is a good indicator to identify successful applications and the graph helps to understand the progress in the technology area.

Detailed Patent Portfolio of China in 2021

Publication Type	Simple Legal Status	Legal State	Count of Publications
UTILITY MODEL	ACTIVE	GRANTED	2991467
		P-REVOKED	30760
		RESTORATION	30760
	DEAD	NON-PAYMENT	126293
		DOUBLE	30760
		REVOKED	30760
		EXPIRED	30760
PATENT	ACTIVE	GRANTED	657550
		RESTORATION	30760
		P-REVOKED	30760
	DEAD	NON-PAYMENT	30760
		DOUBLE	30760
		REVOKED	30760
		EXPIRED	30760
	PENDING	EXAMINATION	30760
APPLICATION	PENDING	EXAMINATION	1047907
	PENDING	PUBLISHED	59731
	ACTIVE	GRANTED	370770
	ACTIVE	RESTORATION	30760
	DEAD	WITHDRAWN	159274
		REJECTED	37925
		ABANDONED	30760
		NON-PAYMENT	30760
		DOUBLE	30760
DESIGN	ACTIVE	GRANTED	30760

Technology Domain-Wise Patent Trends in China in 2021

The chart above distributes patents filed in China in 2021 on the basis of the technology protected in patents. This helps to understand the most frequently used concepts and the key focus areas in the technology space.

Top Players in the Domain with their Forward Citation Frequency

The table below depicts the inventions of the top players in the domain with their forward citation frequency. This helps to understand the strength of the portfolio of top players as players whose patents are most frequently cited have a strong group of core patents in this domain.

Publication Year			2021
Citation Count Range	0 – 2	3-9	10-19	20 – 39	40 – *
INDIVIDUAL	378950	3442	17	0	0
STATE GRID	19164	403	10	0	0
GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCES	16751	272	1	0	0
HUAWEI TECH	15696	434	7	0	0
CHINA PETROLEUM AND CHEMICAL	9960	73	1	0	0
GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS	9552	234	6	1	0
TENCENT TECH SHENZHEN	9005	568	11	0	0
BOE TECH GROUP	8315	152	1	0	0
ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY ZJU	7850	339	10	0	0
HAIER SMART HOME	7996	194	1	0	0

Who were the Leading Patent Filers of 2021 in China?

IPC Classification-Wise Patent Trends in China in 2021

The table below represents the top 10 market domains according to their IPC classification where inventors believed it was critical to safeguard certain technical inventions.

IPC Classification	Number of Applications	Number of Granted	% Granted
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (G06F)	254695	86260	34
SEPARATION (B01D)	205474	165433	81
INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES (G01N)	181938	119329	66
CLEANING IN GENERAL; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL (B08B)	141927	113321	80
TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS (B65G)	114609	92200	80
RECOGNITION OF DATA; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS (G06K)	105251	32794	31
DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION (A61B)	107803	77125	72
TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (H04L)	98298	46969	48
TREATMENT OF WATER, WASTE WATER, SEWAGE, OR SLUDGE (C02F)	98186	69529	71
DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTING PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTING PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (G06Q)	92593	22006	24

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