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PCT and EP Filings on the Rise Again

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

By Donald Zuhn -- Last week, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) announced that International patent filings under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) rose from 155,398 in 2009 to 162,900 in 2010 -- an increase of 4.8%. While the United States ranked first in filings with 44,855 applications, this still marked a 1.7% decline from the 45,618 applications that were filed in 2009. China saw the strongest growth in PCT filings, with applications up 56.2% to 12,337 in 2010. Japan, Germany, and South Korea rounded out the remainder of the top five with 32,156; 17,171; and 9,686 applications, respectively. When...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on February 18, 2011 (boomark / email).