Analysis of Present Situation and Development Trend of Sewing Machinery Industry in China

At present, the patents filed by China's sewing machine companies mainly focus on product appearance and function optimization, improvement, original design of the invention is less, and the patent declarer is mainly a few key enterprises in the industry, SMEs continue to apply for patents. This is related to the fact that the current technological innovation system in China's sewing industry is not yet complete, and the process of product differentiation is slow.

From the perspective of the product areas covered by patents, in recent years, innovations in embroidery machines and parts have been relatively rapid. These two types of products have accounted for more than half of the patents in the field of design patents; and embroidery machine products have occupied the field of utility model patents. The quantity has exceeded 30%, and the invention patent is more than 50% (the announcement of the invention product of embroidery was 54 in 2008, accounting for 53.5% of the invention patent of the domestic sewing machine, an increase of 74.2% compared with the same period of last year), showing the sewing machine industry in our country The technological innovation effect of the field for many years has begun to appear. This is supported by the fact that the demand in the international market declined in 2008 and the average export price of embroidery machines in China has risen significantly. In 2008, the export volume of China's sewing machine embroidery industry decreased by 9.8%, but the export volume increased by 10.43%.

In the field of industrial sewing machines, the technological progress of domestic enterprises in recent years is very obvious. In addition to the significant increase in patent filings, technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises represented by Zhongshou Heavy Industries, Refinement, and Shupu have become active. The patents of these enterprises mainly focus on the special functions of special sewing machines and conventional models, and the quality of patented technologies. This is quite high, showing the good momentum of technological innovation in the industry.

According to patent data from 2006 to 2008, China's sewing machine industry has entered an accelerated period of intellectual property rights growth. It is worth noting that since China’s invention patents are applied only 18 months after the application, only utility models and appearance patents can basically achieve the year’s application year announcement, so the industry patent data for the invention has a distortion period of about two years. .

In other words, at present, the latest data we have seen does not exceed the first half of 2007. From the perspective of the step-by-step growth characteristics of utility models and appearance patents in the industry, a large number of patents for inventions filed by our sewing machinery industry in 2007 and 2008 were also filed. Unannounced, it is expected that the industry will continue to maintain a high growth in the number of patents in the next two years. In terms of patents for inventions, it is likely to break the current pattern dominated by Japanese companies, and there will be situations in which China and Japan evenly divide or even surpass Japanese companies. With the guidance and promotion of the state and industry in corporate technological innovation and intellectual property, enterprises are investing more and more in technological innovation, the foundation is getting better and better, and the results will be more abundant. Therefore, China's sewing machine industry knowledge The phenomenon of high growth of property rights is likely to exist for a long time.