18 octobre 2006

Development: patents in the world

The number of registered patents in the world has nearly doubled in ten years. Yet this is not happening in Europe, but due to the fast growth in Asia: WIPOs report (World Intellectual Property Organization). The growth was of 268 % in South Korea and 488 % in China. Europe is continuing to lag behind the US and Japan. And forget about Portugal's contribution, or even that of Spain, still not too bad in european terms.

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