China Issues a Report on the Status of National Intellectual Property Agency Industry Development
China’s National Intellectual Property Administration published the Report on National Intellectual Property Agency Industry Development Status (2022) on May 11, 2023. In 2022, 645 new patent agencies were established in China, with 5 international patent agencies allowed to open resident representative offices. There were 4,520 patent agencies (excluding Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan) by the end of 2022, 63,311 patent attorneys, 31,347 practicing patent attorneys, and 4,405 litigation representatives. The number of applicants for the 2022 patent attorney qualification examination was [...]