W&B IP Newsletter
July of 2024, Vol. 87

Contents
PatentThe China-Iceland and China-Egypt Patent Examination Highway (PPH) Pilot Projects to be extended……………… 2
Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Advanced Circuit Seminar held in China…………………………………………… 2

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CNIPA releases KEY IP5 STATISTICAL INDICATORS 2023………………………………………………………… 3WIPO releases the Patent Landscape Report — Generative Artificial Intelligence…………………………………… 3Website：www.watsonband.com

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Page 2PatentThe China-Iceland and China-Egypt Patent Examination Highway (PPH) Pilot Projects to beextended
In order to continue to provide efficient and convenient PPH services to applicants, the China National IntellectualProperty Administration and the Intellectual Property Office of Iceland and the Patent Office of Egypt haverespectively reached an agreement on the extension of the relevant PPH pilot project. The two PPH pilot projects
will be extended for another five years from July 1, 2024 to until June 30, 2029. Among them, the address of theheadquarters of the Iceland Intellectual Property Office has been updated in the China-Iceland PPH Guide, and therest of the content remains unchanged, which will continue to apply to the China-Iceland PPH pilot project. Therequirements and procedures for the China-Egypt PPH pilot project will continue to follow the China-Egypt PPHGuide.
The extension of the two PPH pilot projects will facilitate the patent applications of innovative entities to be
examined more quickly, so as to better serve scientific and technological innovation and economic development, andwill further promote the exchanges and cooperation between China and Iceland and Egypt in the field of intellectualproperty.
(Source: China Intellectual Property Administration)

Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Advanced Circuit Seminar held in China
Recently, the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Advanced Circuit Seminar co-sponsored by the China National
Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) wassuccessfully held in Tianjin and Hubei.
At the meeting, experts from the CNIPA and the WIPO made a detailed introduction on the latest progress of thePCT system and the use of the practice, and answered the questions raised by the participants, so as to enhance theunderstanding on the PCT system of relevant innovation entities and service organizations, improve the ability toeffectively use the PCT system, and improve the level of PCT application practice.
A total of about 300 representatives attended the meeting, including relevant enterprises, universities, intellectualproperty service agencies, the Hubei Center and the Tianjin Center of the Patent Examination Cooperation of thePatent Office of the CNIPA, Tianjin Center, and relevant local intellectual property management agencies.
(Source: China Intellectual Property Administration)

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Intellectual Property
CNIPA releases KEY IP5 STATISTICAL INDICATORS 2023

(Source: China Intellectual Property Administration)

WIPO releases the Patent Landscape Report — Generative Artificial Intelligence
On July 3, local time, the World Intellectual Property Organization
released the " Patent Landscape Report — Generative Artificial
Intelligence " (the “Report”). The report documents 54,000 GenAI
inventions in the decade ending in 2023. According to the Report,
China filed the largest number of GenAI patents, far surpassing theUnited States, South Korea, Japan and India.
A summary of the major findings under the Report is provided
below:
An overview of GenAI related patents

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Between 2014 and 2023, 54,000 invention applications
related to GenAI were filed, and more than 75,000 scientificarticles were published. In 2023 alone, GenAI patent family
publications accounted for over 25% of all GenAI patentpublications; and papers related to GenAI accounted for over
45% of all papers written during the period. However, presently
GenAI patents only account for 6% of all AI patents worldwide.
The top 10 organizations with the most patents in GenAI
Specifically, they are: Tencent (2,074 inventions), Ping An
Insurance Group (1,564), Baidu (1,234), Chinese Academy ofSciences (607), IBM (601), Alibaba Group (571), Samsung
Electronics (468), Alphabet (443), ByteDance (418) andMicrosoft (377).
Key locations of inventors
China is at the forefront of global patenting activity in GenAI. China was responsible for more than 38,000 patentfamily publications between 2014 and 2023, based on the inventor addresses published on patents. Since 2017, China
has published more patent families in this field every year than all other countries combined.
With a total of around 6,300 patent families between 2014 and 2023, the US is the second most important research
location for GenAI. The Asian countries of the Republic of Korea, Japan and India are also important research
locations in GenAI, all ranking in the top 5 countries worldwide (third, fourth and fifth respectively) (Figure 16).

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Page 5Figure 17 gives an overview of the current Chinese leadership in GenAI research activities. Between 2014 and2023, China achieved a world share of almost 70% of all patent family publications in GenAI globally (Y-axis). Even
more impressive is that China has also reached very high average growth rates of patent family publications (50% peryear, X-axis) in that period among the top inventor locations despite its already large GenAI patent portfolio. Only
India had even higher growth rates in GenAI patent family publications (56% per year). The Republic of Korea has
also achieved high growth rates in their GenAI patent families since 2014. By contrast, patent families from Japan andthe UK have only risen by a little more than 10% per year on average.

Specific forms and fields of GenAI patents
Image and video data dominated GenAI patents (17,996 inventions), followed by text (13,494) and speech/music(13,480). GenAI patents that use molecular, genetic, and protein data are growing rapidly (1,494 since 2014), with anaverage annual growth rate of 78% over the past five years.

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A wide range of fields covered by GenAI Patents
Specifically, these fields include life sciences (5,346 inventions), document management and publishing (4,976),
and more than 2,000 inventions in business solutions, industrial and manufacturing, transportation, security andtelecommunications.
Meanwhile, the Report also points out that the emergence of GenAI will have significant impacts on variousindustries. For example, copyright issues arising from the use of GenAI have been debated in many jurisdictions. In
the United States, for example, artists, authors and others have filed lawsuits accusing major AI companies such as
OpenAI of using their copyrighted works without permission to train AI systems. Another hotly debated issue, amongothers, is whether AI inventions can be patented.
(Source: WIPO)