Patent Requests Increased by 11% in 2013, Says IP5 Report
Nearly 957,000 patents were granted by the world’s five largest patent offices (IP5) in 2013, 4 percent above 2012, said a Friday news release from the Patent and Trademark Office. The release cited the publication of a report from the…
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IP5: the PTO; European Patent Office; Japan Patent Office; Korean Intellectual Property Office; and State Intellectual Property Office of the People’s Republic of China. Patent applications to those offices totaled 2.1 million, up 11 percent from 2012, said IP5.