IPR Trends Q1 2017: Patent and Trademark Statistics - 2017.05.15

A. Patent
1. New applications for all three types of patents rose by 6% to 17,670 cases (Table 1).2. Inventions (11,174), utility models (4,659), and designs (1,837) increased by 8%, 2% and 3%, respectively (Table 1).
3. Inventions by residents (3,769) and non-residents (7,405) were up by 8% and 9%, respectively (Table 1).
4. By country, Japan (3,540) came on top, followed by the US (1,604), China (425), Hong Kong (417), and South Korea (401) (Fig.1).
5. The top five domestic corporations filing new invention patents were Taiwan Semiconductor...read more

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