中國企業在歐專利申請增幅第一
Chinese companies filed 7,150 patents with the European Patent Office (EPO) in 2016, a year-on-year increase of 24.8%, according to figures released by the EPO last Tuesday.
歐洲專利局上週二發佈的數據顯示，2016年，中國企業向歐洲專利局共遞交7150項專利申請，同比增長24.8%。It was the fastest growth rate among the top 10 countries on the EPO's patent-filing league table.
這一增幅在歐洲專利局專利申請數量最多的十個國家中位列第一。Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei filed a notable 2,390 patents, which was the second-largest filing by a company globally, after Philips with 2,568 patents.
值得注意的是，中國電信巨頭華爲遞交了2390項專利申請，其專利申請數量在全球企業中排名第二，僅次於飛利浦(2568項)。
Other Chinese companies that filed a large number of patents included ZTE, Alibaba, Xiaomi, BYD and Haier, all of which are rapidly expanding into Europe.
其他專利申請活躍的中國企業還包括中興、阿里巴巴、小米、比亞迪和海爾，這些中企均在歐洲迅速擴張。Benoit Battistelli, president of the EPO, said the increase in patent filings by Chinese companies reflects both their increasing expansion into Europe and the fact that China is becoming a globally innovative knowledge-based country.
歐洲專利局局長伯努瓦·巴迪斯戴利表示，中國公司專利申請量的增加，反映出中國加速擴張到歐洲、正成爲一個知識型的全球創新型國家的事實。"We are also witnessing a positive progress of diversification," he said. "In the past, most Chinese companies' patent filings were concentrated in the ICT sector, but now there are increasingly patents filed in engines, turbines, sports, automotive, and biotechnology sectors."
他說道：“我們也在見證一個有關多樣化的積極的發展。在過去，大多數中國企業的專利申請主要集中在信息通信技術領域，但是現在有越來越多的專利申請出現在了發動機、泵體、渦輪機、汽車行業以及生物技術等領域。”
