{Article} IRA: Countries Patent Application in 2012
- China’s patent office received more applications than any other
country’s in 2011 (exceeding those to America and Japan), according to the World Intellectual Property
Organisation, a UN body which follows 125 patent offices.
- The strong growth of industrial design applications in 2011 is a further incremental effect of the Chinese applications, which again gets the high step of the podium, while the China’s State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) became the largest patent office in the world, as measured by the number of applications received for patents, utility models, trademarks and industrial designs.
- Globally
filings rose by 7.8% last year, breaking the 2 million mark.
- Growth was over 7%
for the second year running, thanks largely to another surge in China
(which has accounted for 72% of the world’s patent-filing growth between
2009 and 2011; America contributed 16%).
- Almost 1m patents were granted
in 2011; Japan approved the most. But America has the most patents in
force: more than 2.1m, out of an estimated 7.9m worldwide.
- The IP office of India has also seen considerable increases over the past few years. In fact, India surpassed Japan in 2010 and the Republic of Korea in 2011.
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