Last year, the European companies for the first time in the history were replaced by Asians in the number of prepared patent applications . According to the European Patent Office (European Patent Office, EPO), the German company Siemens AG has moved to second place, behind the first South Korean company Samsung Electronics. U.S. Developer - Qualcomm - collapsed in the list up to seventh place. There was 257,744 applications in 2012, patents were issued only to 65,687 applications.
It must be said that every year the number of patent applications and patents gradually increasing. In 2012, was 5.2% more applications than in 2011 and approved patents for 5.8%. For the first time since 2008, the number of applications filed in the member states, surpassing the previous record.
According to the number of applications leading four Asian companies - Samsung, LG, Mitsubishi and ZTE; four European - Siemens, BASF, Robert Bosch and Ericsson; and two American - General Electric and Qualcomm.
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