World IP Today: analyzing global patent activity and technology innovations

 

World IP Today: analyzing global patent activity and technology innovations

Ben Lansbury
May 2008

Two newly-published reports from Thomson Reuters reveal the dynamic nature of the global IP sector, and its vital importance to both global and national economies.

World IP Today: A Thomson Reuters Report On Global Patent Activity in 2007
This new report highlights patent output from the G8 countries (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States) plus China and South Korea.

Findings indicate:

  • Global patent activity grew by 21 per cent between 2003 and 2006, with 2007 proving to be yet another year of growth for patents
  • Japan is still the world's leading filer of patents, but continues to decline slowly. Its lead over the U.S. and China is eroding as their patenting activity increases. China 's output has almost doubled in the last five years
  • Academic innovations are at their highest ratio in China and Russia where they represent nearly 25 per cent of total patenting activity
  • South Korea safeguards more inventions worldwide than ever before, while the U.S. has greatly decreased the number of patents it files across the key patent regions

World IP Today: A Thomson Reuters Report On Global Technology Innovations in 2007
This report reviews the massive increase in technology innovations developed globally over the past ten years (1997-2006), highlighting tri-lateral inventions or inventions that have been filed in the U.S., Europe and Japan.

Among the key findings:

  • Four areas of technology are truly exemplary in protecting high volumes of inventions: consumer electronics, computing, telecommunications and entertainment and business services technology
  • Protection for computing inventions in the three largest markets, Japan, the U.S. and Europe, has been more prevalent than in other technology sectors
  • Innovation within the computing industry is far more evenly distributed between countries than with other technologies
  • Of the top ten patent assignees based on innovations filed in the United States, Europe and Japan during 2007, most are from Japan
  • There has been a significant drop in innovation within the industrial, audio/visual and data recording sectors between 2001 and 2007, as well as a dramatic fall in the semiconductors field which decreased by 26 per cent during the same period.

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