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First-Ever Drop In Filings Under Patent Cooperation Treaty Seen In 2009

By Intellectual Property Watch

International patent filings under the World Intellectual Property Organization?s Patent Cooperation Treaty fell for the first time in three decades in 2009, owing to a deep economic downturn, WIPO officials said today. Overall patent filings fell 4.5 percent in 2009, but industrialised nations were particularly hard-hit, and are also expected to have slower growth rates in 2010 than emerging economies.

Full post as published by Intellectual Property Watch on February 08, 2010 (boomark / email).