Top Ten Countries For Patent Filing
by David MannersThanks to the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) for this one – the top ten applicant countries for patents last year:
China 58,990
USA 57,840
Japan 52,660
Germany 19,353
Korea 19,085
France 7,934
UK 5,786
Switzerland 4,610
Sweden 4,185
Netherlands 4,011.