China investigated 6,529 patent infringement cases in the first half of 2019, according to the National Intellectual Property Administration at a press conference Tuesday.

中国国家知识产权局周二召开新闻发布会表示，2019年上半年该部门已调查6529件专利侵权案件。

A total of 238,000 invention patents were authorized in China in the first half of 2019, up 9.9 percent year on year.

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. has 2,314 invention patents authorized in the period, ranking first on the Chinese mainland.