China handles 467，000 patent app lications in H 1，up 9.6%on year

上半年中国受理专利申请同比增长9．6%

China State Intellectual Prop erty Office(SIPO)handled 467，000 applications of patents in the first six months of this year， rising 9.6%year on year， according to statstics released by SIPO.This includes 411，000 domestic applications， accounting for 88%of the total，and 56，000 foreign applications， 12%of the total.Patent applications for invention，utility model and design， the three main categories of patents in China， respectively reached 164，000，165，000 and 138，000 in the periods.

Of the domestic patent application it handled，239，000 were position application， sup 17.7%year on year，and taking up 58.2%of the total patent application of China； and 171，700 were non-position applications， down 0.2%， 41.8%of the country's total.Among the invention patent applications， 115，000 were from the domestic， up 10.6%； and 49， 000 from abroad，up 11.4%，accounting for 70.1%and 29.9%of the country's total invention patent application respectively.

SIPO granted patent rights to 359，000 of the three main categories of the patents， of which 56，000 were invention patents； 129，000， utility model ones； and 164，000， design ones.

SIPO handled total patent applications of 6.285 million by the end of June this year，of which 3.442 million were granted with the patent rights.

SIP said that the patent applications and grants slowed down in growth in the first six months，with the aggregate of the three increasing 9.6%year on year，slower than the 28.9%growth in the same period of last year.At the same time，the foreign application stopped dropping to rise，returning to the level before the financial crisis.The position application of domestic patent applications showed a year on year increase with the proportion approaching 60%of the total in the first half of the year.