People's Daily Online and the Intellectual Property Publishing House jointly unveiled three lists ranking the top 10 companies, universities and research institutes in terms of granted patents in 2014 based on the statistics from SIPO. The lists indicate that industries in China are more aware of the importance of patent and they are using patents as weapons for competition. As for Chinese universities, they have received a rapid growth in both patent applications and authorization, but have a low rate of patent commercialization. Experts suggest that the patent litigation in China will be more and companies should pay more attention to patent operation. The gLAWcal Team LIBEAC project Thursday, 29 January2015 (Source: China Daily)