China is stepping up the pace of its patenting activity with 12,589 US patents registered last year, according to Fairview Research’s IFI Claims Patent Services. The USA received 143,000 US patents last year. Japan is in second place with 48,300 patents, followed by Korea with 20,200 and Germany with 14,800. So China comes in at ...

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