According to the Statistical Analysis Report on the Patents of the Core Industries of the Digital Economy recently released by the CNIPA in 2023, the global number of invention patents granted in the core industries of the digital economy reached 888000, up by 11.7% year on year, accounting for 44.4% of the number of invention patents granted globally, marking an increase of 5.8 % over 2016. As of the end of 2023, the global number of effective invention patents in the core industries of the digital economy was 6.524 million, accounting for 44.5% of the global number of effective invention patents.

2016-2023 Global number of granted invention patents for core industries of the digital economy

As of the end of 2023, a total of 93 countries (regions) has 351,000 valid invention patents for the core industries of the digital economy in China, accounting for 39.1% of the valid invention patents of other countries in China. Among them, the 19,000 enterprises own 344,000. The top 10 enterprises are Japan (115,000), the United States (101,000), South Korea (43,000), Germany (24000), the Cayman Islands (12,000), the Netherlands (8,657), France (7,661), Sweden (6,391), Switzerland (4,923), and Singapore (4,536).

As of the end of 2023, among the global top 100 patent holders for effective invention patents in the core industries of the digital economy, 37 were in Japan, 26 were in China, 21 were in the United States, 7 were in South Korea, 4 were in Germany, 2 were in Sweden, 2 were in the Netherlands, and 1 was in Canada. Among the top 100 patent holders, apart from 6 universities and 2 research institutions, the rest were all enterprises.