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Outline of recent trends in Chinese design applications

Design applications are so numerous in China that they almost exceed patent applications. The present article will focus on the recent trends of Chinese design applications.
About 3,000,000 design applications were filed in China in 2008 (the highest number in the world) – a figure far above the 33,569 applications filed in Japan. More than 90% of these 3,000,000 design applications were filed by Chinese applicants.
When looking back at general trends over the past ten years, it appears that, while the number of design applications filed by foreign applicants was multiplied by four over the period, the applications filed by Chinese applicants increased tenfold, thus resulting in a considerable boost in the percentage of Chinese-filed applications.
In 2008, the five foreign countries from which the highest number of design application were filed in China were Japan (4,782 applications), the USA (2,527), Germany (1,334), South Korea (1,187) and France (653).