Korea and Japan lead the world in terms of patents

The latest report by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) states that in 2005, according to the number of patents granted to over one million people in each country, the world leader was a Japanese (2,876 equals one million inhabitants). followed by Korea (2,530, up 15.6% over the previous year).

A tour guide can accompany the visitors at the Toyota Kaikan Exhibition Hall in Aichi Prefecture (Photo: Japan Today).

If the number of patents on the total domestic production, the equivalent of more than $ 1 billion, on average $ 1 billion each has 19 patents. According to this criterion, the world leader is Korea, Japan, Germany (22.6), followed by New Zealand and the United States.

The third is the number of patents in relation to the amount of money that the state spends (including commercial ones) on science and research (ie, the number of patents received per $ 1 million) . South Korea remained at the top with 5.08 points, followed by Japan (3.37), New Zealand (1.82), Russia (1.56), China 10 with 0.72 equals.

In 2006, a total of more than 5.6 million patents were in operation, of which 90% were owned by 10 national patent offices, including the United States, Japan, Germany, Korea, Britain, France and the West. Spain, China, Canada and Russia. Own 49% of this is Japanese and American. In the period 1995-2005, the number of applications for Korean patent applications doubled, while China increased eight times.

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