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UPDATED: August 18, 2014 NO. 34 AUGUST 21, 2014
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China received 11,243 international patent applications through the Patent Cooperation Treaty in the first half of the year, the State Intellectual Property Office revealed on August 13.

The number represented an increase of 20.5 percent from a year earlier, according to the office.

Chinese companies and individuals made 10,283 filings, accounting for around 91.5 percent of the total applications.

Information technology giants, such as telecommunication device and solution providers Huawei and ZTE, and semiconductor supplier BOE Technology Group Co. Ltd., were most active in filing patent applications, the office reported.

More than half of international patent applications came from south China's Guangdong Province in the January-June period.

The Patent Cooperation Treaty provides a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions in each of its contracting member states.



 
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