Abstract: In order to understand the situation of domestic patents relative to the natural plant extracts for tobacco in recent years, all related patents (applications) published by State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) since 2006 were statistically analyzed in terms of development trend, major inventors and application effects. The results showed that: 1) In total, 410 invention patent applications had been rendered by domestic personals and enterprises, of which 165 were patented. 309 applications were rendered by tobacco enterprises and scientific research institutions, of which 138 were patented. 2) The applicants with over 10 patent applications included China Tobacco Hubei Industrial Corporation Limited among others. 3) 1822 inventors involved in the 309 mentioned applications with the average of 5.90 inventors per application, 18 inventors involved in 12 applications and over. 4) 138 persons were in the charge of the first inventors in the 309 applications mentioned above, on average 2.24 applications per person, 18 persons were the first inventors in over 5 applications. 5) The application area of the patents relative to natural plant extracts included tobacco agriculture, tobacco processing, reconstituted tobacco, cigarette paper, tobacco materials, and so on. The extraction and utilization of natural plant extracts would still be one of the key research subjects for tobacco industry in foreseeable future.