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(Reuters) – The European Patent Workplace (EPA) acquired a report variety of patent functions final yr, with the largest share of fillings coming from the USA, Germany, Japan and China, the workplace’s register confirmed on Tuesday.
The workplace mentioned it acquired 199,275 functions in 2023, 2.9% greater than a yr in the past.
China’s Huawei crammed the most important variety of functions for the third yr in a row, adopted by Samsung (KS:), LG, Qualcomm (NASDAQ:), Ericsson (BS:), and Siemens.
Patent functions are seen as an early indication of how a lot corporations have been spending on analysis and improvement.
“This underlines each the attractiveness of the European know-how market and the top quality of our services and products,” EPA President Antonio Campinos mentioned in an announcement.
Functions from small and medium-sized enterprises have reached the very best stage up to now, he added.