According to statistics of the State Intellectual Property Office, the Chinese domestic applications are mostly from the eastern regions and the economically developed areas. The top three provinces are Guangdong, Jiangsu and Beijing, and 40.7% of applications are from these areas.
In 2009, the SIPO received a total of 229,096 domestic patent applications for inventions, an increase of 17.7%. The top 10 provinces are Guangdong, Jiangsu, Beijing, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Shandong, Liaoning, Tianjin, Sichuan, and Hubei.
2009 also witnessed the rapid growth of the grant of patents for inventions filed by domestic applicants. The total number of granted patents in 2009 was 65,391, an increase of 40.4%. The top three provinces Guangdong, Beijing and Shanghai.
The statistics also show that there is an increase of patent applications by the mid-western provinces due to the innovative capabilities in these areas.
