Rintaro Hosokawa, Nikkei Asian Review; China keeps global crown in patent applications
"China was responsible for around 40% of the 3.17 million patent
applications submitted worldwide last year, putting the country at the
top for the seventh straight year and driving Asia's growing presence in
the global intellectual property arena.
The World Intellectual
Property Organization said Monday China's 1.38 million applications
mark a new record, though the group did not give a year-on-year
percentage increase due to changes in the way China's patent office
counted filings.
China's patent applications in 2017 mainly
concerned electronic devices, computer technology and digital data
transmission. Chinese tech companies, such as telecommunications
equipment makers Huawei Technologies and ZTE, significantly boosted their application counts.
At
607,000, patent applications from the U.S. were less than half of
China's total. That places America in second place, followed by Japan's
318,000 applications in third and South Korea's 200,000 in the No. 4
spot."
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