Visual Capitalist recently summarizes the 2021 WIPO data that showcases which countries were granted the most new patents, along with their sector categorizations. Out of 1,608,375 patent grants in 2021, 88% were issued to applicants from just 6 countries.
On Wednesday, Via Licensing Corporation and TCL® announced that TCL has secured a license to Via’s Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) patent pool. Advanced Audio Coding is defined by a set of International Standards from ISO/IEC.
China ranked first in battery patents in the post-lithium-ion era, accounting for more than half of the world's total, according to statistics over the past decade published by Nikkei Asia. Nikkei commissioned the Mitsui & Co. Global Strategic Studies Institute for an analysis.
The Intellectual Property Court of China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) handled 6,183 cases in 2022, up 18% from 2021, according to a report released by the SPC last Thursday. Of the new cases handled in 2022, 1338 concerned strategic emerging industries.
The European Patent Office received 19,041 patent applications from china in 2022, up 15.1 percent on the precious year and a new record (the largest increase among the 20 major application countries and regions), according to the EPO’s Patent Index 2022 released on Tuesday.
