The average examination period for our country's invention patents has been reduced to 15.5 months, ranking among the fastest in the world.

Today, the State Council Information Office held a series of theme press conferences on "High-Quality Completion of the 14th Five-Year Plan", and officials from the National Intellectual Property Administration introduced the new progress and achievements of building a strong country in intellectual property during the 14th Five-Year Plan period. During the conference, it was introduced that China's intellectual property protection has reached a new level. The National Intellectual Property Administration completed a comprehensive revision of the Patent Law, establishing a high-standard punitive compensation system. It is pushing forward a new round of comprehensive amendments to the Trademark Law, focusing on solving deep-seated contradictions and problems such as malicious trademark squatting, hoarding, and invalidation at the institutional level. Accelerating the amendment of the Regulations on the Protection of Layout Design of Integrated Circuits to meet the needs of the development of ultra-large-scale integrated circuits. Establishing a unified system for the recognition of geographical indications. Constructing rules for the protection of data intellectual property. Implementing the construction of the intellectual property protection system, improving the rapid collaborative protection mechanism of intellectual property, strengthening guidance for handling overseas intellectual property disputes, and building and deploying 128 national intellectual property protection centers and rapid rights protection centers nationwide. Successfully winning the battle of improving the quality and efficiency of patent and trademark examination, establishing an internationally leading intelligent patent examination and retrieval system, reducing the average examination period for invention patents to 15.5 months and stabilizing the average examination period for trademark registration at 4 months, both reaching the fastest level internationally under the same examination system. The social satisfaction with intellectual property protection has increased from 80.05 points in 2020 to 82.36 points in 2024, entering a good stage overall.