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With patent applications on the rise, European Patent Office puts quality before quantity
01.04.08 - 22:58 ... source : Office européen des brevets (OEB)
... Désolé. Actuellement, cette page n'existe pas en français. Munich , 1 April 2008 According to statistics published by the European Patent Office (EPO), the number of European patent applications has continued to increase, but the EPO has granted fewer patents. In 2007, the EPO received a record total of around 218 200 patent filings, compared with 210 600 the previous year. On the other hand, the 54 700 European patents granted in 2007 represented a decrease of 12.9% over the previous year when 62 800 granted patents were published. Alison Brimelow, President of the EPO, considers that priority has to be given to patent quality: "The purpose of patents is to support the generation of economic benefits for society. However, large patent numbers are not necessarily indicative of growing R&D activity. What we therefore need is not more patents, but more good patents. The EPO aims to ma ...» Suite (HTML)
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