Statistics: Record growth in international patent filings

Top growth rates for the third successive year came from countries in north east Asia, representing over a quarter of all applications under the PCT. The highest numbers of applications were from the US, Japan, Germany, Republic of Korea and France.

The top 5 applicants remain unchanged. The Dutch multinational Philips Electronics N.V. was again the largest applicant (2,495 applications published in 2006), followed by Matsushita (Japan) (2,344), Siemens (Germany) (1,480) , Nokia (Finland) (1,036), and Bosch (Germany) (962). These were followed by 3M (USA) (727), BASF (Germany) (714), Toyota (Japan) (704),Intel (USA) (690), and Motorola (USA) (637). Among the 20 top filing companies, seven were from the USA, four from Japan and three from Germany.

Source: WIPO

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