世界知识产权组织(World Intellectual Property Organisation)在10月16日公布的数字中说,中国在10年内的专利申请量已增长7倍,成为全球第5大专利申请国,首次超过传统专利申请大国——德国,排在前面的依次为日本、美国、欧洲专利局(European Patent Office)、韩国。与此同时,我们也要清醒的看到不足:在中国申请的专利中,近半为外企提出,而日、韩企业,多数由本土发明人提出专利申请。 According to figures released by the World Intellectual Property Organization on October 16, China has seen its patent applications increased seven-fold in a decade, making it the fifth-largest patenting country in the world and surpassing the traditional patent-applying powers for the first time - - Germany, followed by Japan, the United States, the European Patent Office and South Korea. At the same time, we must clearly understand the inadequacies: nearly half of the patents applied in China are made by foreign companies, while most Japanese and South Korean enterprises are filing patent applications by local inventors.