In 2020, my country authorized 530,000 invention patents throughout the year, with OPPO ranking second among companies

On January 22, the National Intellectual Property Administration held a regular press conference for the first quarter. According to data from the National Intellectual Property Administration, in 2020, my country authorized 530,000 invention patents, and the number of domestic (excluding Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) invention patents was 2.213 million. Among them, the position of enterprises as the main body of innovation has been further consolidated, and there are 246,000 domestic enterprises with valid invention patents, an increase of 33,000 over the previous year.

According to a report recently released by the global patent database incoPat, as of December 31, 2020, among the top 20 corporate patent owners (without merger of rights holders), OPPO ranked second with 3,580 invention patent authorizations.

OPPO ranks second among corporate patent holders in terms of the number of invention patents granted

From the perspective of IPC classification, the invention patent authorizations announced in 2020 are mainly concentrated in several categories, including G06 (calculation; estimation; counting), H04 (electrical communication technology), G01 (measurement; testing), and H01 (basic electrical components). Among them, OPPO ranks second in the number of invention authorizations in the two major categories of G06 and H04.

OPPO's patent authorization volume ranked second in the two categories of G06 and H04

As a world-leading technology company, OPPO has always attached great importance to technology accumulation and R&D innovation, and its firm R&D investment has continued to transform into fruitful intellectual property results. From 2018 to 2019, OPPO's domestic invention patent authorization volume ranked third among companies.

From a global perspective, as of December 31, 2020, OPPO's global patent applications exceeded 57,000, of which more than 51,000 were invention patent applications, accounting for 89%, and the number of global patent authorizations exceeded 24,000. According to the 2019 Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) application rankings released by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in April 2020, OPPO ranked fifth, demonstrating its leading technology research and development capabilities worldwide.

2020 is the year of accelerated deployment and large-scale commercialization of 5G networks. OPPO continues to deploy 5G communication standard patents in more than 20 countries and regions around the world. So far, OPPO has completed more than 3,600 families of global patent applications and claimed more than 1,400 families of 5G standard patents in ETSI. OPPO has submitted more than 3,000 standard documents to 3GPP, ranking among the top.

In 2020, OPPO proposed the brand belief of "Technology for People, Good for the World" and released the "3+N+X" technological leap strategy to support the construction of a new ecosystem where all things are interconnected.

Specifically, "3" refers to the basic technologies of hardware, software and services. "N" is the capability center that OPPO has been building for a long time, including artificial intelligence, security and privacy, multimedia, interconnection, etc. "X" refers to OPPO's differentiated technologies, including imaging, flash charging, new forms, AR, etc. OPPO will invest strategic resources to create differentiated technology points, bring disruptive innovation to products, and thus revolutionize user experience.

OPPO is also continuously increasing its investment in technology research and development. Starting from 2020, OPPO will invest 50 billion yuan in research and development within three years, with "3+N+X" as the focus of the next stage of research and development work.

Looking to the future, OPPO will continue to increase R&D investment and talent introduction, firmly promote "innovation for good", improve products and services, and use technology as a means to realize everyone's pursuit of beauty, imagination, and humanity. With an open and win-win attitude, we will work with all partners in the industry chain to build a world of goodness.