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14-02-2022, 09:16 AM
PUBLISHED FEB 11, 2022, 7:31 AM SGT
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Even as Covid-19 took a vast human and economic toll, international patent applications continued to grow, with Asia, and China in particular, cementing their leading positions.
A record 277,500 international patents were filed last year, marking a 0.9 per cent increase from 2020
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hina remained at the top of the rankings with 69,540 filings.
That marks a mere 0.9 per cent increase over 2020.
But a year earlier, China registered a 16 per cent jump over 2019, when it for the first time overtook the United States as the world's top international patent filer.
The US remained in second place last year, with 59,570 filings, followed by Japan with 50,260, South Korea with 20,678 and Germany with 17,322.
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Singapore ...... saw its international patent applications swell by 23 per cent to 1,617, while Finland and Turkey each saw jumps of more than 13 per cent.
Wipo's report showed that Asia-based applicants accounted for 54.1 per cent of all filings last year, up from 38.5 per cent a decade earlier.
For the fifth consecutive year, China-based telecoms giant Huawei Technologies topped the global ranking, with 6,952 PCT applications.
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It was followed by US firm Qualcomm at 3,931; South Korea's Samsung Electronics at 3,041 and LG Electronics at 2,855; and Mitsubishi Electric Corp of Japan at 2,673.
https://www.straitstimes.com/business/ec...-un-report
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Even as Covid-19 took a vast human and economic toll, international patent applications continued to grow, with Asia, and China in particular, cementing their leading positions.
A record 277,500 international patents were filed last year, marking a 0.9 per cent increase from 2020
......
hina remained at the top of the rankings with 69,540 filings.
That marks a mere 0.9 per cent increase over 2020.
But a year earlier, China registered a 16 per cent jump over 2019, when it for the first time overtook the United States as the world's top international patent filer.
The US remained in second place last year, with 59,570 filings, followed by Japan with 50,260, South Korea with 20,678 and Germany with 17,322.
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Singapore ...... saw its international patent applications swell by 23 per cent to 1,617, while Finland and Turkey each saw jumps of more than 13 per cent.
Wipo's report showed that Asia-based applicants accounted for 54.1 per cent of all filings last year, up from 38.5 per cent a decade earlier.
For the fifth consecutive year, China-based telecoms giant Huawei Technologies topped the global ranking, with 6,952 PCT applications.
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It was followed by US firm Qualcomm at 3,931; South Korea's Samsung Electronics at 3,041 and LG Electronics at 2,855; and Mitsubishi Electric Corp of Japan at 2,673.
https://www.straitstimes.com/business/ec...-un-report
