Presentation of the Chinese Delegation on Its Proposal March 15 to 17, 2011 Moscow

By December 31, 2010, an accumulated amount of patent applications for inventions and utility models in China has approached 4.75 million, including 2,330,264 applications for invention patent and 2,417,384 applications for utility model. * Data from SIPO statistics. 2 The Chinese patent documentation has formed an important component part of the global prior art From 1985 to 2010, the number of patent applications in China has maintained rapid increase.

In 2010, the number of Chinese invention patent applications reached 390,000, ranking the 2 nd among all countries. In 2010, the number of Chinese PCT applications exceeded 12,000, ranking the 4 th among all countries. 3 The Chinese patent documentation has formed an important component part of the global prior art

The proportion of the Chinese patent documentation in the total of global patent documentation has been experiencing a sharp rise. The source for these figures is the "WIPO Statistics on Patents", which may be found at: 4 According to the statistical data published by WIPO, the invention patent applications in China in 1985 accounted for 0.9% of the world total that year, and then rose to 18.2% in The Chinese patent documentation has formed an important component part of the global prior art

Since 2003, the number of Chinese domestic applications has remarkably exceeded that of foreign ones. 5 The Chinese patent documentation has enriched and broadened the content and scope of global prior art * Data from SIPO statistics.

Chinese organic fine chemistry technology Chinese telecommunications technology Chinese digital communication technology Chinese Audio-visual technology Chinese food chemistry technology Chinese basic communication processes technology Chinese environmental technology Chinese civil engineering technology PCT Minimum The Chinese patent documentation has enriched and broadened the content and scope of global prior art According to the statistics published by WIPO, the number of PCT applications from China in the field of digital communication amounted to 20% of the global PCT applications in this area. 6

The technical information contained in most of the Chinese domestic applications can only be obtained by searching the Chinese patent documentation. 7 The Chinese patent documentation has enriched and broadened the content and scope of global prior art For PCT international authorities, searching the Chinese patent documentation will contribute to improvement of both the quality and completeness of PCT searches.

The quality of Chinese patent documentation data processing has been constantly improved 8

48 foreign IP offices and relevant international organizations, including 9 PCT ISA and IPEA have already had access to the Chinese patent documents. 9 Chinese patent documentation has been digitized and can be searched and obtained online

Search in English English Abstracts Machine-translated specifications 10 Chinese patent documentation has been digitized and can be searched and obtained online

Chinese patent documentation has been digitized and can be searched and obtained online * Data from SIPO statistics. In 2010, the total amount of visits to the official website of SIPO by foreign users has reached million. 11

In 2010, the total amount of visits to the patent search column of the official website of SIPO by foreign users is million. Chinese patent documentation has been digitized and can be searched and obtained online * Data from SIPO statistics. 12

Rule 34 Minimum Documentation 34.1 Definition (a) and (b) [No change] (c) Subject to paragraphs (d) and (e), the national patent documents shall be the following: (i) [No change] (ii) the patents issued by the Federal Republic of Germany, the Peoples Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, and the Russian Federation, (iii) to (vi) [No change] (vii) the Utility Models of the Peoples Republic of China. (d) [No change] (e) Any International Searching Authority whose official language, or one of whose official languages, is not Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian or Spanish is entitled not to include in its documentation those patent documents of Japan, the Peoples Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation and the former Soviet Union as well as those patent documents in the Spanish language (f) [No change] 13