{"id":1330,"date":"2017-12-11T16:20:49","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T16:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackopspartners.com\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2017-12-11T16:20:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T16:20:49","slug":"china-dominates-top-western-economies-patent-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackopspartners.com\/china-dominates-top-western-economies-patent-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"China dominates top Western economies in patent applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>China dominates top Western economies in patent applications.<\/h1>\n<p>GENEVA \u2014 The U.N.\u2019s intellectual property agency says China racked up a record 1.3 million patent applications last year, topping the combined total in the U.S., Japan, Korea and Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The World Intellectual Property Organization says innovators worldwide filed 3.1 million patent applications in 2016, up 8.3 percent from a year earlier, marking the seventh straight yearly increase.<\/p>\n<p>China alone accounted for 98 percent of that increase, with its patent office receiving 236,600 more applications than in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Releasing WIPO\u2019s annual intellectual property report Wednesday, Director-General Francis Gurry cited the \u201cextraordinary growth numbers\u201d that epitomize the trend of recent years.<\/p>\n<p>WIPO said trademark applications shot up by 16 percent to about 7 million, and worldwide industrial design applications increased by 10.4 to almost 1 million, again led by growth in China.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c7962d;\"><em>Read more at <a style=\"color: #c7962d;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/asia_pacific\/china-dominates-top-western-economies-in-patent-applications\/2017\/12\/06\/5aba7c22-da8d-11e7-a241-0848315642d0_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.N.\u2019s intellectual property agency says China racked up a record 1.3 million patent applications last year, topping the combined total in the U.S., Japan, Korea and Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackopspartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackopspartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackopspartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackopspartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackopspartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackopspartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackopspartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackopspartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackopspartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}