IPR Trends Jan-Jun 2016: Patent and Trademark Statistics - 2016.08.02

IPR Trends Jan-Jun 2016: Patent and Trademark Statistics
A. Patent Applications
1. New applications for all three types of patents were down by 2.55% to 34,494 cases.
2. Applications for invention (20,622) and utility model (9,927) patents were down by 2.17% and 6.23%, respectively. Meanwhile, design (3,945) applications were up by 5.74% (Table 1).
3. Invention applications (7,447) by residents were down by 6.84%; those by non-residents (13,175) were up by 0.69% (Table 1).
4. Breakdown by country, Japan (5,994) topped the list, followed by the US (3,409), South Korea (807), China (649), and Germany (631) (Fig.1).
5. The top five domestic invention filing corporations were Hon Hai (176), AU Optronics (133), Acer (109), Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) (87), and China Steel (78) (Fig.2).
6. Among the top five invention filing foreign corporations, Intel (375) continued to stay on top, followed by Qualcomm (313), Semiconductor Energy Laboratory (SEL) (204), Tokyo Electron (166), and Applied Materials (148) (Fig.2)...read more

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