Abstract:It is of great theoretical and practical significance to accelerate the improvement of Chinese patent quality project and promote the implementation of the intellectual property power strategy of China by evaluating the patent quality of Chinese academic institutions scientifically and reasonably. We select authorized invention patents for 2000-2018 from Chinese academic institutions, Chinese enterprises and American academic institutions, and analyze their patent quality from three stages of patent creation, application and maintenance transformation by using seven indexes: the number of non-patent citations, the number of patent citations, cited frequency within five years, agent application rate, cooperation application rate, effective holding rate and conversion rate. The research shows that the patent quality of Chinese academic institutions is at the lowest level among the three subjects, especially there is a big gap between the Chinese academic institutions and American academic institutions in indexes for the patent creation stage, and there is no upward trend. To improve the patent quality of Chinese academic institutions, firstly we should improve the novelty and innovation of patents.