Tuesday, March 16, 2021
UPDATE:
As pointed out by Stephen Yang of IP March, while CNIPA has ceased releasing official statistics in Chinese on their website and press releases, application filing data is available on the English version of CNIPA’s website. The English-language numbers however are nonsensical as they indicate 2020 annual filings were less than half of cumulative filings from January through November 2020. We will follow up in a subsequent post
Without notice, the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) appears to have ceased publishing data on the number of patent applications filed monthly or annually. CNIPA used to publish monthly and annual data on the number of invention patent applications, utility model applications and design patent applications filed. However, the last application filing data released was for November 2020, in which Chinese invention patent application filings jumped almost 33% month-on-month.