The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) reported yesterday in Geneva that China ranked third for the highest number of patents submitted to the organization last year. Japan had the second highest, and the US once again ranked at the top.
Patents submitted from Chinese companies last year amounted to 29,800, and for Japan and US companies, that number was 44,200 and 57,400 respectively.
China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd for the second year in a row was the company that submitted the most patents with 3,898. The US’s Qualcomm and China’s ZTE Corporation submitted 2,442 patents and 2,155 patents respectively.
According to the WIPO report, last year saw a record number of international patent applications, a total of 218,000, up 1.7% from the previous year. Among all the countries that submitted patents, China was the fastest-growing with a 16.8% increase in patent applications compared to the previous year.
Source: view.inews.qq.com
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Its common knowledge that Huawei steals expensive tech from Ericsson. A single photo form the production-line is all they need.
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