A Study on Establishment of the Patent Application Quality Evaluation Index System

With the implementation of the national intellectual property strategy, the State Intellectual Property Office of the P.R.C., in "Several Opinions on Further Enhancing the Patent Application Quality", has clearly indicated that the amount of intellectual property creation and the quality of intellectual property should be coordinated and developed. Leading creators of intellectual property should shift their attention from the quantity of the intellectual property they produce to the quality of that intellectual property. The quality of patent applications plays an important role in patent quality evaluation and innovation. Therefore, it is important to further improve the quality of patent applications to ensure the efficient operation of the patent system. This research will start from the connotation of patent application quality, with insight from domestic and foreign scholars on the quality index of patent applications. Then this research will develop a system of patent application quality evaluation index that aims to provide policy bases and decision-making references for the appropriate evaluation of patent application quality.