UN Agency Says China Tops World Again in Patent Applications

China continued to set the pace for patent applications last year, filing a record 1 million that nearly all focused on its giant home market, the U.N.'s intellectual property agency said Wednesday. The World Intellectual Property Organization says China comprised more than one in three of the total 2.9 million patent applications in 2015, followed by the United States and Japan with about a half-million each. Releasing an annual report, WIPO officials said the increase shows the...

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