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China Awards Top Patents
The China State Intellectual Property Office has announced winners for 2016’s top patents. The awards, in cooperation with WIPO, recognize outstanding Chinese Patents for inventions and industrial designs.
Selected from more than 1,150 candidates from around the country, more than any previous year in the event's history, five received gold awards for their industrial designs and 20 inventions and utility models.
The award winning patents cover a wide range of sectors, including energy, chemicals, metallurgy, autos, rail transportation, telecommunications, robotics, aircraft and spacecraft, biopharmaceuticals, medical equipment and electronics.
Among the winners is the patented technology from the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System and was designed to prevent spacecraft collisions.
WIPO data shows that China ranked top of the world in number of patent, trademark and industrial design applications last year. China has become the first country whose annual invention patent filings exceeded 1 million. Its valid invention patent inventory has also surpassed the 1-million benchmark, making China the third country after the United States and Japan to do so.
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