Encourage Universities to Apply for Patents to Protect their R&D Results and Promote Dissemination - 2016.01.20

The number of patent applications filed by local colleges and universities dropped 11.3% to 4,275 in 2014 from the peak of 4,817 in 2013. In addition, their applications filed in the three quarters of 2015 also decreased by 10% compared to the same period of 2014. The applications from national universities were mostly for invention patents while those from private universities were mostly for utility model patents. Overall, these universities outperformed in applications for the areas of medical and healthcare as well as pharmaceutical and biotech.

In the past few years, over 50% of the patent applications filed by the top 10 national universities were for invention patents. In particular, the invention patent applications accounted for over 95.5% of the total patent applications filed by the National Tsing Hua University for a long time...read more

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