2012年PCT国际专利申请状况分析

Trend of PCT Patent Applications in 2012

2012年世界知识产权局组织(WIPO)共受理PCT国际专利申请194 400件,比2011年增长6.6%,增速较上一年有所放缓1。其中中国PCT专利申请量为18 627件,以13.6%的增速居世界第2位。电子机械类以13 293件申请(占总数的7.5%)超过数字通讯(7.1%),成为2012年已公布PCT申请量最多的技术领域2。中国企业申请增长势头强劲,中兴通讯股份公司以3 906件申请蝉联全球PCT申请人首位3,华为技术有限公司(1 801件)名次较去年下降一位来到第4位。

The number of international patent filings under the WIPO-administered Patent Cooperation Treaty （PCT） reached 199,400 in 2012 with a 6.6% increase on 2011 which slowed down compared with the last year. China with 18,627 filings gained a second fastest year-on-year growth rate of 13.5%. PCT applications related to electronic machinery with 13,293 published applications （7.5% of the total） surpassed digital communication （7.1%） to become the largest proportion of PCT application published in 2012. Chinese enterprises saw a rapid growth wherein ZTE Corporation remained the leading enterprise with 3,906 applications while Huawei Technology Co. Ltd dropped to the fourth place with 1,801 applications.