16－4 Number Of Patent Application and their Certification（2006）
|  |  | （person）
Items |  | of Which
Total | Urban | Jiangyin | Yixing
| Districts | City | City
Number of patent applicaticns | 8623 | 6523 | 1594 | 506
Invention | 1160 | 802 | 231 | 127
Applied Type | 1851 | 1157 | 549 | 145
Design | 5612 | 4564 | 814 | 234
Number of patent applicaticn certified | 2922 | 1878 | 770 | 274
Invention | 231 | 144 | 50 | 37
Applied Type | 1365 | 843 | 358 | 164
Design | 1326 | 891 | 362 | 73