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Even as Covid-19 took a vast human and economic toll, international patent applications continued to grow, with Asia, and China in particular, cementing their leading positions.
A record 277,500 international patents were filed in 2021, marking a 0.9-percent increase from 2020, the UN's World Intellectual Property Organisation<\/a> said in its annual overview.
\"These figures show that human ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit remain strong despite the disruptions caused by the pandemic.\" WIPO<\/a> Director-General Daren Tang said in a statement.
Last year marked the 12th consecutive year of growth in international patent filings.
WIPO's chief economist Carsten Fink highlighted how remarkable it was that \"international patent filings continued to grow in 2020 and 2021 as the global pandemic unfolded and upended economies around the world.\"
\"This experience is notably different compared to previous economic crises,\" he told reporters, pointing to how international patent filings fell during the global financial crisis in 2009.
WIPO's complex system of registering international patents involves multiple categories, including global trademarks and design filing systems.
- China on top -<\/strong> In the main category -- the Patent Cooperation Treaty, or PCT -- China remained at the top of the rankings with 69,540 filings.
That marks a mere 0.9-percent increase over 2020.
But a year earlier, China registered a 16-percent jump over 2019, when it for the first time overtook the United States as the world's top international patent filer.
The United States remained in second place in 2021, with 59,570 filings, followed by Japan with 50,260, South Korea with 20,678 and Germany with 17,322.
The UN agency highlighted significant growth in applications by several smaller filers as well.
Singapore, for instance, saw its international patent applications swell by 23 percent to 1,617, while Finland and Turkey each saw jumps of over 13 percent.
WIPO's report showed that Asia-based applicants accounted for 54.1 percent of all filings last year, up from 38.5 percent a decade earlier.
For the fifth consecutive year, China-based telecoms giant Huawei Technologies<\/a> topped the global ranking in 2021, with 6,952 PCT applications.
The company thus applied for more international patents than all the filings out of Britain in 2021, Fink pointed out.
It was followed by US firm Qualcomm Inc<\/a> at 3,931; South Korea's Samsung Electronics<\/a> at 3,041 and LG Electronics<\/a> at 2,855; and Mitsubishi Electric Corp of Japan<\/a> at 2,673.
Computer technology accounted for the largest share of published PCT applications, making up 9.9 percent of the total, followed by digital communication and medical technology.
The pharmaceutical field recorded the strongest growth rate for filings, seeing a 12.8-percent jump, followed by biotechnology, which was up 9.5 percent.
Fink pointed out that it takes around 18 months for patents to be published after they are filed, warning that the official 2021 figures might not yet completely reflect pandemic-fuelled technology trends.
However, he said, \"we have definitely seen greater dynamism in the health-related technology fields.\"
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即使Covid-19花了巨大的人力和经济损失,国际专利申请继续增长,亚洲,尤其是中国,巩固自己的领导地位。
2021年创纪录的277500年国际专利申请,这比2020年增长了0.9,联合国的世界知识产权组织说在年度概述。
“这些数据显示,人类的创造力和创业精神依然强劲,尽管中断引起的流感大流行。”世界知识产权组织总干事达伦·唐在一份声明中说。
去年,标志着连续12年在国际专利申请量的增长。
世界知识产权组织首席经济学家卡斯滕•芬克强调的是“国际专利申请量持续增长在2020年和2021年全球大流行展开和颠覆了整个世界的经济。”
“这经验是明显不同与以往的经济危机相比,”他告诉记者,指向如何国际专利申请在2009年全球金融危机期间下降。
世界知识产权组织的复杂系统注册国际专利涉及多个类别,包括全球商标和设计归档系统。
——中国——上面在主类别——专利合作条约,或者PCT——中国仍排名69540文件的顶部。
这标志着仅比2020年增加0.9。
但一年前,中国注册比2019年增长16%,当它首次超过美国成为世界上最大的国际专利申请数量。
在2021年,美国仍然排在第二位,有59570个文件,其次是50260年与日本、韩国与17322年与20678年,德国。
联合国机构在应用程序由几个较小的申报人突出显著增长。
例如,新加坡国际专利申请增加23%到1617,而芬兰和土耳其每看到跃升超过13%。
世界知识产权组织的报告显示,亚洲的申请者占所有的54.1%去年申请,高于十年前的38.5%。
连续第五年,中国电信巨头华为技术有限公司2021年全球排名榜首,6952的应用程序。
该公司因此申请国际专利超过2021年英国所有的文件,芬克指出。
这是紧随其后的是美国公司高通(qcom . o:行情)在3931年;韩国的年代,三星电子在3041年和LG电子(LG Electronics)在2855年;和日本三菱电机公司在2673年。
计算机技术占最大的份额PCT发布应用程序,占总数的9.9%,其次是数字通信和医疗技术。
制药领域记录文件的最强的增长率,看到跃升12.8,其次是生物技术,增长了9.5%。
芬克指出,需要18个月左右出版专利申请后,警告说,官方的2021年的数据可能没有完全反映pandemic-fuelled技术趋势。
然而,他说,“我们肯定见过更大的活力与卫生相关的技术领域。”
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