As a member of the dessert family, chocolate must have a name. From the distant 16th century to the present day, there are few people in the world who don't love chocolate, from bitter and expensive drinks to creamy and rich candies. There is a line in the movie Chocolat: "You can't refuse chocolate, just like you can't refuse love."
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So what does delicious chocolate have to do with patents?
Drawing1 Types of Chinese patent applications in chocolate field
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By searching keywords and classification numbers, as of November 30, 2020, Xiaobian has retrieved 4987 Chinese patents in the field of chocolate in Inspiro China Intellectual Property Big Data and Intelligent Service System (http://www.zldsj.com/). What a surprise! There are so many patents related to chocolate! Among them, design patents and invention patents accounted for the largest proportion, 2,465 and 1,796, respectively.
Drawing2 Types of Chinese patent applications in chocolate field
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From the perspective of the type of the applicant, the patent application is given priority to with enterprise, more filings in the top five were Shanghai golden monkey food co., LTD. (81), Inner Mongolia yili industrial co., LTD. (71), high esaki gree corporation (66), Mars (and mas company, 64) and Shanghai ShenFeng food co., LTD. (57), mostly we are familiar with the enterprise, its market share is also roughly proportional to patent application number. It can be seen that in the field of chocolate production and manufacturing, enterprises are the main force to promote technological research and development.
