On September 9th, People.cn and i ThinkTank of Intellectual Property Publishing House officially launched “Chinese Patent Rankings.” The rankings are classified on the areas, enterprises, scientific research institutions, colleges and universities, and nature person, and updated monthly. According to the patent grants in the first eight months in 2014, for the enterprises, Huawei won the first place for five months, ZTE for two months, and Qualcomm (China) entered into the top ten for seven months. For the colleges and universities, Zhejiang University won the first place for five months, the patent grants of Southeast University, Shanghai Jiaotong University etc. are growing. For scientific research institutions, the relevant institutions of Chinese Academy of Sciences have absolute advantages with the invention patents as the main part. The patent grants from natural person are in high production, with the design patents as the main part.

(Source: China IP Magazine)