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EPO Grant Rate up 40% as US Leads Way for Applications

2017/03/09

The European Patent Office (EPO) granted a record number of European patents in 2016, while the US led the charge for applications.
According to a report released recently, the EPO granted 96,000 European patents in 2016, an increase of 40% year-on-year, which is due to “effective measures” to improve the EPO’s productivity.
It also recorded an “unprecedented” level of patent filings in 2016, reaching more than 296,000, an increase of 6.2% compared with 2015.
The five countries of origin with the largest numbers of European patent applications were the US, Germany, Japan, France and Switzerland.

Source: WIPR
　　




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