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Patenting hot spots revealed

22 June 2009

Managing Intellectual Property

Korean and Japanese companies are leading patenting activity in the fast-growing areas of telecoms and bio-related activity, according to a report published today

The Thomson Reuters IP Market Report compares the growth in published and granted patents from 2003 to 2008/9 in three areas: algae; cell phone data/wireless network roaming and lab-on-a-chip nanotechnology.

The report found that the number of patents on cell phone/computing convergence increased from 8,705 in 2003 to 25,283 in the first quarter of 2009, with...



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