In the last twenty years the number of patent families active in China has risen steadily. Notable years are 2009 and 2014 in this development. In 2009 the number of active patent families in China surpassed South Korea's active patents. At that point only the United States and Japan had more active patent families. In 2014, China surpassed both countries. The statistic is based on data provided by PatentSight.
Number of active patent families worldwide as of November 2019, by authority protected
* A patent family is defined as a group of patent documents all of which have the same set of priorities. I.e., it is a group of patent documents that protect the same invention across authorities.
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LexisNexis PatentSight. (November 12, 2019). Number of active patent families worldwide as of November 2019, by authority protected [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 30, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1069396/number-of-patents-globally-by-authority-protected/
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