# Chinese Patent Filings by Company

**Use case:** 

Patents filed at the Chinese office, grouped by company and counted by priority year. China is now the largest patent office in the world, and its filings are often missing from landscapes built on US data alone.

## Input

```json
{
  "query": "battery energy storage",
  "assignees": [],
  "sinceYear": 2017,
  "country": "CN",
  "onlyGranted": false,
  "maxPatents": 120,
  "outputMode": "assignees",
  "minPatentsPerAssignee": 2
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "assignee": {
    "label": "Company"
  },
  "totalMatchingFiled": {
    "label": "Total matching"
  },
  "patentsRead": {
    "label": "Patents read"
  },
  "trend": {
    "label": "Trend"
  },
  "whyTrend": {
    "label": "Why"
  },
  "filingsByPriorityYear": {
    "label": "Filings by year"
  },
  "filingsCountedExactly": {
    "label": "Exact counts"
  },
  "firstPriorityYear": {
    "label": "First filed"
  },
  "latestPriorityYear": {
    "label": "Last filed"
  },
  "internationalSharePercent": {
    "label": "International %"
  },
  "grantedSharePercent": {
    "label": "Granted %"
  },
  "topInventors": {
    "label": "Top inventors"
  },
  "recentPatents": {
    "label": "Recent filings"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [Patent Landscape Tracker: Who Is Patenting What](https://apify.com/precious_bathmat/patent-landscape-tracker.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/precious_bathmat/patent-landscape-tracker.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


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