tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932619659532183989.post3538699257546062448..comments2023-11-02T17:42:01.025+08:00Comments on Patent Agent in Hong Kong: Number of patent applications in ChinaPatent Agenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03739782951917381940noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932619659532183989.post-46320646696415416062010-03-29T11:02:46.337+08:002010-03-29T11:02:46.337+08:00What you said may be right. But you also need to l...What you said may be right. But you also need to look at the numbers in 2009:<br /><br />There were 314573 invention patent filed, out of which 72.8% were domestic, and 310771 utility model filed, out of which 99.4 were domestic.<br /><br />For domestic filing, there were no foreign patent agent supervising China patent attorney in these filing.<br /><br />The total patents filed by foreign entities in 2009 (invention and utility model combined) numbered to 87387.<br /><br />Numbers are disclosed here: http://www.sipo.gov.cn/sipo_English/statistics/gnwsznb/2009/201001/t20100127_488773.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932619659532183989.post-14067243566955148312010-03-29T01:39:30.848+08:002010-03-29T01:39:30.848+08:00a patent agent should be able to handle 100 cases ...a patent agent should be able to handle 100 cases per year easily enough.<br /><br />Most invenrtion Chinese patents originate overseas and all the agent has to do is translate the text, put figure lables on in simplified chinese text and file it.<br /><br />for prosecution, again the agent only needs to translate the office actions and get all the substantive comments from the instructing forign agentAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com