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January 15, 2005
milestone - americans seeking most international patents
Companies around the world have filed applications for 1 million international patents under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) since the system began in 1978, according to the U.N. agency for intellectual property.
- The United States currently dominates the applications, filing 205,286 applications since 2000, said Samar Shamoon, spokeswoman for the World Intellectual Property Organization.
- Japan is in second place with 72,891, followed by Germany with 70,513, Britain 25,916 and France 24,278.
Posted by Douglas Sorocco at 02:20 PM.
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