BEIJING, Feb. 3 -- Huawei, a major Chinese
telecommunications company, for the first time ranks No. 1 in the world among
all the company and individual applicants for the Patent Cooperation Treaty
(PCT), according to the latest statistics released from the World Intellectual
Property Organization. Huawei had the highest number of patent filings, with a
total of 1737 applications in 2008.
Ranking second through fifth were Panasonic (Japan),
Philips Electronics NV (Netherlands), Toyota (Japan) and Robert Bosch GMBH
(Germany).
Statistics show in 2008 international PCT filings
totaled 164,000, an increase of 2.4 percent year-on-year. The U.S. ranked first
in the world with over 53,000 fillings and Japan and Germany came in second and
third with over 28,000 and over 18,000 filings respectively. The other countries
in the top 10 were South Korea, France, China, the UK, the Netherlands, Sweden
and Switzerland in sequence.
The number of filings from South Korea, China and
Sweden recorded the largest increases. Last year, South Korea filed 7,908
patents, China 6,089 patents and Sweden 4,114 patents, representing growth rates
as high as 12 percent, 11.9 percent and 12.5 percent respectively.
(Source:People's Daily)
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