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Inovia Releases Report on Global Patent Trends

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Donald Zuhn -- In February, inovia released its 2011 report on global IP trends. In compiling the report, inovia, which produces products for PCT national phase entry, European patent validation, and patent translations, surveyed nearly 150 U.S. companies to examine how the U.S. economy has impacted the foreign filing strategies of U.S. patentees. The report notes that survey respondents filed an average of just under 50 patent families last year, with 23% of respondents being involved in the pharmaceutical/biotech sector. About a third of survey respondents had no in-house patent attorneys or agents, one-third had a single in-house patent...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on March 17, 2011 (boomark / email).