2012年PCT国际专利申请状况分析

2012年世界知识产权局组织（wIPo）共受理PcT国际专利申请194400件，比2011年增长6．6％，增速较上一年有所放缓1。其中中国PCT专利申请量为18627件，以13．6％的增速居世界第2位。电子机械类以13293件申请（占总数的7．5％）超过数字通讯（7．1％），成为2012年已公布PCT申请量最多的技术领域2。中国企业申请增长势头强劲，中兴通讯股份公司以3906件申请蝉联全球PCT申请人首位3，华为技术有限公司（180l件）名次较去年下降一位来到第4位。

Trend of PCT Patent Applications in 2012

The number of international patent filings under the WIPO-administered Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) reached 199,400 in 2012 with a 6.6% increase on 2011 which slowed down compared with the last year. China with 18,627 filings gained a second fastest year-on-year growth rate of 13.5%. PCT applications related to electronic machinery with 13,293 published applications (7.5% of the total) surpassed digital communication (7.1%) to become the largest proportion of PCT application published in 2012. Chinese enterprises saw a rapid growth wherein ZTE Corporation remained the leading enterprise with 3,906 applications while Huawei Technology Co. Ltd dropped to the fourth place with 1,801 applications.