More patents from China, South Korea - UN
Geneva - China and South Korea are climbing up the ranks of the world's leading inventors, according to figures released by the UN patent agency Thursday[February 21, 2008]. Of the 156,000 international patents filed through the World Intellectual Property Organization last year, some 7,000 originated in South Korea and almost 5,500 came from China. The numbers put the two countries far behind the United States, which maintained its top position for international patents with about 52,000 registrations. But South Korea overtook France to come fourth behind Germany (27,731) and Japan (18,134) on the patent ladder. China (5,456) saw its filings jump by almost 40 percent in one year and came seventh -- ahead of the Netherlands (4,186) and within striking distance of Britain (5,553), according to WIPO...
(Source: China Daily)
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