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The present economy requires the formation of pro-innovative behaviours, which themselves create conditions required for the effective generation and initiation of one’s own achievements in the scientific-technical realm. The role of the state in the economy and its influence on economic processes undergoes a number of changes in reference to the range and form of influence, and also in the intensity of the influence of public powers on the economy. Realisation of this work requires the ability to use accessible legal and economic instruments in patent policies, which stimulate the development of a country’s creativity and inventiveness. This article strives to analyse how changes in Chinese patent law have influenced patent activity during a period that has seen “three great reforms to patent law in China”. The first part presents the role of patents as the basis for qualifying the mechanisms of influence on innovations and the outline of legislative changes in China. The second part offers an analysis of the profile and range of patent activity there. The conclusions of the article discuss the positive relationship between changes in patent protection and the observed rate of innovations in China, of which an essential element is the observed “patent boom”.