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China Debuts in Top Five in Housing U.S. Patents

2018/03/02

Chinese companies obtained 11,241 more U.S. patents in 2017, up 28%, making China, for the very first time, a top five country in the department of owning U.S. patents. The number of U.S. patents obtained by Chinese companies increased by ten-fold in the last decade, according to statistics issued by a U.S. research institute.　 Among the 320,000 patents granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office in 2017, 3.5% of which were obtained by Chinese companies. The local U.S. companies claimed ownership to 148,139, accounting for 46% of the total. The rest of the top five countries were Japan (50,600), South Korea (20,970) and Germany (15,771).

Source: China IP News




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