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China Claims #9 Rank In United States Patents!

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For 2009, China passed Italy to claim the ninth-highest rank for countries that receive the most patents in the United States.

Patents By Country, State, and Year - All Patent Types (December 2009)

Patents granted by the United States for the year 2009.

1. U.S. 95,037 patents
2. Japan 38,066
(Greater China 10,638)
3. Germany 10,353
4. South Korea 9,566
5. Taiwan 7,781
6. Canada 4,393
7. U.K. 4,011
8. France 3,805
9. China 2,270
10. Italy 1,837
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India 720
Hong Kong 587 (Patent office counts Hong Kong as a separate entity)
Singapore 493
Russian Federation 204
Brazil 148

For 2009, Greater China's 10,638 combined total patents (i.e. China's 2,270 + Taiwan's 7,781 + Hong Kong's 587) are greater than Germany's 10,353 patents. Greater China would rank third on the U.S. patent list. The patent ranks are important because they help to explain why China is the world's largest exporter and Germany is the world's second-largest exporter. Patents play an important role.

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[Note: These are my comments from last year on "Greater China outnumbers German patents."

There are 70,000 Taiwanese companies on the Chinese Mainland. It is my guess that many Chinese exports incorporate not only Chinese patents, but also Taiwanese patents. The Taiwanese were a perennial #4 in U.S. patents received until they were passed by South Korea in 2008.

While the current number of Chinese patents appears to be insufficient to support a large high-tech export base, the combination of Greater China (i.e. Chinese, Taiwanese, and Hong Kong) patents should suffice.

Greater China's 10,370 patents (i.e. China's 1,874 + Taiwan's 7,779 + Hong Kong's 717) are greater than the number of German patents at 10,086.

Taiwan (10/09)
"Significant migration to Taiwan from the Chinese mainland began as early as A.D. 500. ..... There are a number of small political parties, including the Taiwan .... in China, and more than 70000 Taiwan companies have operations there. .... In keeping with our one China policy, the U.S. does not support Taiwan ..."
 
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Greater China's patents play an important role in China's high-tech exports.

For 2009, due to the Great Recession worldwide, China's top two high-tech exports for "Electrical machinery & equipment" and "Power generation equipment" dipped to $537.1 billion US dollars. However, if we add in the $38.9 billion from "Optics and medical equipment" then the overall high-tech exports for 2009 are $576.0 billion U.S. dollars. See "Table 5: China's Top Exports 2009 ($ billion)."

US-China Trade Statistics and China's World Trade Statistics
 
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The 50 Most Innovative Companies - BusinessWeek

"The 50 Most Innovative Companies April 15, 2010, 5:00PM EST

The 50 Most Innovative Companies
For the first time since Bloomberg BusinessWeek began its annual Most Innovative Companies ranking in 2005, the majority of corporations in the Top 25 are based outside the U.S. The reason: the new global leaders coming out of Asia
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The extended Top 50 list is dominated by companies from Europe, Asia, and, in another first, South America (Petrobrás (PBR) of Brazil at No. 41). China's rise is biggest. A year ago its only representative was PC-maker Lenovo Group (LNVGY), at 46. This year Greater China is tied with Asia's postwar powerhouse, Japan, thanks to showings by BYD, Haier Electronics (27), Lenovo (29), China Mobile (CHL) (44), and Taiwan-based HTC (47). The age of Asian innovation has begun."
 
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good news ,we are investing more and more in R&D, however, the efficiency need to be improved
 
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good news ,we are investing more and more in R&D, however, the efficiency need to be improved

Here is the type of results from China's R&D.

China's Advanced Sciences

Are you aware of the current Chinese advances in nanotechnology, drug delivery, quantum cryptography, material science, etc.?

Here is a sample of the cool products that might result from China's R&D.

Nanotechnology: Tom Mackenzie on China's giant step into nanotech | Technology | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/...echnology-china

BBC NEWS | Health | Nanoparticle lung threat blocked

'Nano-raspberries' for Steamy Windows

Polymers release insulin in response to glucose trigger

China develops world's first quantum cryptography network

New Super-bouyant Material: Life Preserver Might Float A Horse
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/...90316092837.htm
 
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Here is the type of results from China's R&D.

China's Advanced Sciences

Are you aware of the current Chinese advances in nanotechnology, drug delivery, quantum cryptography, material science, etc.?

Here is a sample of the cool products that might result from China's R&D.

Nanotechnology: Tom Mackenzie on China's giant step into nanotech | Technology | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/...echnology-china

BBC NEWS | Health | Nanoparticle lung threat blocked

'Nano-raspberries' for Steamy Windows

Polymers release insulin in response to glucose trigger

China develops world's first quantum cryptography network

New Super-bouyant Material: Life Preserver Might Float A Horse
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/...90316092837.htm

it is not the time to self-glorification ,we need increase our R&D expenditure at least seversal times if we want to compete with British and France, let alone German,Japanese and AMERICAN.
we are serious lagged behind in many aspects:blah:
 
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it is not the time to self-glorification ,we need increase our R&D expenditure at least seversal times if we want to compete with British and France, let alone German,Japanese and AMERICAN.
we are serious lagged behind in many aspects:blah:

China's R&D spending rises to $136B

"China's R&D spending rises to $136B
(FT/Agencies)
Updated: 2006-12-04 08:21

China has overtaken Japan to become the second biggest spender on research and development behind the US, a report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development revealed.

The country is expected to invest $136bn in research and development this year after growing by more than 20 per cent in the past year, ahead of the the $130bn from Japan but still well behind the $330bn the US will invest, the OECD said.

The report is the latest indication of the dramatic rise in research spending in China.

Dirk Pilat, head of the OECD's science and technology division, said the surge in Chinese research was "stunning". He added: "Chinese investment has been growing rapidly for some time, but it is still a surprise that it has overtaken Japan so quickly."

Mr Pilat said that the bulk of the spending in China was on development work, to alter products for the fast-growing Chinese market, rather than basic scientific research.

The number of patents coming from China that were registered with the patent office in the US, Europe and Japan is still low and a string of recent scandals over academic fraud have also raised questions about how well the money is spent.

But Mr Pilat added that some multinationals were beginning to move genuine research to China because of the high numbers of skilled scientists they could recruit in Shanghai or Beijing. "There are some signs that they are starting to do fundamental or breakthrough work in China," he said.

As well as increasing spending on university science departments, the government has also been eager to attract multinational companies to open research centres in the country."
 
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With the number of people it has I think #9 is still too far behind.
 
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Martian 2,

Not that many Chinese domestic firms go to the US Patent Office to file patents, except those export-oriented particularly having a base in the US I can imagine.

WIPO has China Patents Office too.

What WIPO counts is worldwide total number of patents filed, in which China is far up there being #4 or #5 in the world ranking I believe.

You might want to check it up, cuz China's total patent (creativity) picture is much better than # 9 - the impression your posts might create to other readers, but definitely with one of the highest, if not the highest, growth rate for the past decade - at least this was what I checked at the beginning of the year.
 
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Martian 2,

Not that many Chinese domestic firms go to the US Patent Office to file patents, except those export-oriented particularly having a base in the US I can imagine.

WIPO has China Patents Office too.

What WIPO counts is worldwide total number of patents filed, in which China is far up there being #4 or #5 in the world ranking I believe.

You might want to check it up, cuz China's total patent (creativity) picture is much better than # 9 - the impression your posts might create to other readers, but definitely with one of the highest, if not the highest, growth rate for the past decade - at least this was what I checked at the beginning of the year.

As you say, WIPO counts the "worldwide total number of patents filed." However, my list is for United States patents granted. I'll look into the WIPO issue and see if I can find a patents-granted list.
 
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Martian 2 , here we go:


International Patent Filings Dip in 2009 amid Global Economic Downturn


Geneva, February 8, 2010
PR/2010/632



Video of the press conference, Audio of the press conference (MP3)


International patent filings under WIPO's Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) fell by 4.5% in 2009 with sharper than average declines experienced by some industrialized countries and growth in a number of East Asian countries. Provisional data indicates that 155,900 [1] (annex 1) international patent applications were filed in 2009 as compared to the nearly 164,000 applications filed in 2008.

"The decline in PCT filings is not as sharp as originally anticipated – last year's results bring us back to just under 2007 levels, when 159,886 international applications were filed," said WIPO Director General Francis Gurry. "Interestingly, the rate of decline in international filings is lower than that experienced in some national contexts. This is an indication of a broad recognition that it makes good business sense, whatever the economic conditions, to continue to protect commercially valuable technologies internationally."

International patent filings in a number of East Asian countries continued to enjoy positive growth in spite of the challenging global economic conditions. Japan, the second largest user of the PCT, experienced a 3.6% rate of growth with 29,827 applications; the Republic of Korea (ROK), ranked fourth largest user of the system, experienced 2.1% growth with 8,066 applications; and China became the fifth largest PCT user with a strong growth rate of 29.7%, representing some 7,946 international applications.

International patent filings experienced a sharper than average decline in a number of industrialized countries. For example, the filing rate dropped by 11.4% in the USA and by 11.2% in Germany in 2009. Declines were also experienced in the United Kingdom (-3.5%), Switzerland (-1.6%), Sweden (-11.3%), Italy (-5.8%), Canada (-11.7%), Finland (-2.2%), Australia (-7.5%) and Israel (-17.2%).


The United States of America (USA) maintained its top ranking (Annex 2), filing just under a third of all international applications in 2009 (45,790), followed by

Japan (+3.6%, 29,827 applications),

Germany (-11.2% or 16,736 applications),

ROK (+2.1%, 8,066 applications),

China (29.7%, 7,946 applications),

France (+1.6%, 7166 applications),

United Kingdom (-3.5% or 5,320 applications),

the Netherlands (+3.0% or 4,471 applications),

Switzerland (-1.6% or 3,688 applications) and

Sweden (-11.3% or 3,667 applications).




Top Applicants [2] (Annex 3)


Panasonic Corporation (Japan) returned to the top spot in the list of PCT applicants, nudging Huawei Technologies, Co., Ltd. (China) into second place.

Panasonic Corporation had 1,891 PCT applications published in 2009,

China's Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. had 1,847, , followed by

Robert Bosch GMBH (Germany, 1586 applications),

Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Netherlands, 1,295 applications) and

Qualcomm Incorporated (USA, 1280 applications).

Four Japanese companies, Panasonic Corporation (ranked 1st), NEC Corporation (ranked 8th), Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (ranked 9th) and Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (ranked 10th) featured in the list of top 10 largest filers.


The University of California accounted for the largest number of applications published in the category of educational institutions. Most top-filing universities, however, experienced declines in the number of international patent filings in 2009.


Developing Countries

The largest number of international applications received from developing countries in 2009 came from the Republic of Korea(8,066) and China(7,946) followed by India (761), Singapore (594), Brazil (480), South Africa (389), Turkey (371), Malaysia, (218), Mexico (185) and Barbados (96).


Developing countries make up over 78% of the membership of the PCT, representing 112 of the 142 countries that have signed up to the treaty and accounted for 14% of the total number of filings (with China and ROK accounting for 10%).

"In implementing the WIPO Development Agenda, WIPO is working very closely with member states to develop and roll-out projects that will enable all countries to reap the benefits of innovation and the knowledge economy" said Mr. Gurry. "In this context, maximizing participation in the PCT is a key priority. Membership of the PCT offers an opportunity for countries to bring their national patenting processes in line with international standards helping to create a more attractive investment environment. It further offers local companies a cost-effective means of obtaining patent protection in multiple countries" he added.


Fields of Technology

Declines and advances in PCT filings varied by technology area (annex 4). The greatest declines related to computer technology (12,560 applications, down 10.6% on 2008); pharmaceuticals (12,200 applications, down 8.0% on 2008) and medical technology (12,091 applications, down 5.9% on 2008). The largest growth rates were experienced in micro-structural and nano-technology (+10.2%), semiconductors (+10%) and thermal processes and apparatus (+ 7.2%).

The main fields of technology in which PCT applications are published are broken down according to the International Patent Classification (IPC) – a classification system designed to facilitate the retrieval of technical information found in patent documents worldwide.


Evolution of the PCT

PCT operations are under constant review to ensure that the system continues to deliver value added services to users. The system, first launched in 1978, is designed specifically to promote effective information sharing among patent offices, to avoid duplication of work and to facilitate access to valuable patent information. According to WIPO's Program and Budget for 2010/11, the Organization's objective is "to maintain and reinforce the PCT as the central node and work sharing tool of the international system and the preferred route for obtaining international patent protection."

WIPO and other patent offices have continually sought to streamline, modernize and enhance PCT operations to generate efficiency gains and to better serve the business community. As a consequence, some 80% of all PCT applications are now filed fully or partially in electronic format.


Other Developments

In 2009, WIPO‘s PATENTSCOPE® search service, which currently hosts data on more than 1.6 million international patent applications filed under the PCT, was further enhanced to include patent data collections of eight patent offices - African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO), Cuba, Israel, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Singapore, South Africa and Vietnam – making it possible to conduct high-quality, detailed and free-of-charge searches of the patent information of these offices. Further enhancements of this data search service are anticipated in 2010. WIPO provides technical assistance to offices to assist them in the digitization and dissemination of their patent data. This technical support is part of the Organization's commitment to supporting the development of a fully integrated global IP infrastructure and to increasing participation by developing and least developed countries in the benefits of the knowledge economy.


Impact of PCT Decline on WIPO's Budget


WIPO is a largely self-funding agency, drawing 95% of its income from services to the private sector. The PCT is one of WIPO's core income generating areas responsible for some 75% of the Organization's revenue. Since the onset of the global financial crisis, WIPO has closely monitored use of its fee-paying services and adopted prudent financial management and a range of cost-cutting measures. The Organization expects to report a positive result overall for the 2008/09 biennium. "This is a very positive result and reflects the seriousness with which we have taken the financial crisis," Mr. Gurry observed. "We will continue to monitor the situation and are hopeful that the PCT will return to positive growth in the near future."


Background

The PCT offers inventors and industry an advantageous route for obtaining patent protection internationally. By filing one "international" patent application under the PCT, protection of an invention can be sought simultaneously in each of a large number of countries. Both applicants and patent offices of PCT member states benefit from the uniform formality requirements, the international search and preliminary examination reports, and the centralized international publication provided by the PCT system. The national patent granting procedure and the related expenses are postponed, in the majority of cases, by up to 18 months (or even longer in the case of some offices) as compared with the traditional patent system. By this time, the applicant will have received important value-added information concerning the likelihood of obtaining patent protection as well as potential commercial interest in that invention.


International Patent Filings Dip in 2009 amid Global Economic Downturn



P.S.

China (mainland) is posed to surpass Korea in 2010 to become the 4th largest behind US, Japan and Germany.

Taiwan is not a member of WIPO which is the UN organisation. As a consequence, all Taiwan patants have to be filed in the US Patent Office. Hong Kong is also counted seperately. Therefore the total worldwide PCT sum of Greater China in 2009 were 16,314 (mainland:7,946, Taiwan:7,781; HK: 587), just slightly less than that of Germany (16,736). However, Greater China, if counted as an entity, is also posed to surpass Germany to become the 3rd largest worldwide patents holder in 2010.
 
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Martian 2 , here we go:


International Patent Filings Dip in 2009 amid Global Economic Downturn


Geneva, February 8, 2010
PR/2010/632



Video of the press conference, Audio of the press conference (MP3)


International patent filings under WIPO's Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) fell by 4.5% in 2009 with sharper than average declines experienced by some industrialized countries and growth in a number of East Asian countries. Provisional data indicates that 155,900 [1] (annex 1) international patent applications were filed in 2009 as compared to the nearly 164,000 applications filed in 2008.

"The decline in PCT filings is not as sharp as originally anticipated – last year's results bring us back to just under 2007 levels, when 159,886 international applications were filed," said WIPO Director General Francis Gurry. "Interestingly, the rate of decline in international filings is lower than that experienced in some national contexts. This is an indication of a broad recognition that it makes good business sense, whatever the economic conditions, to continue to protect commercially valuable technologies internationally."

International patent filings in a number of East Asian countries continued to enjoy positive growth in spite of the challenging global economic conditions. Japan, the second largest user of the PCT, experienced a 3.6% rate of growth with 29,827 applications; the Republic of Korea (ROK), ranked fourth largest user of the system, experienced 2.1% growth with 8,066 applications; and China became the fifth largest PCT user with a strong growth rate of 29.7%, representing some 7,946 international applications.

International patent filings experienced a sharper than average decline in a number of industrialized countries. For example, the filing rate dropped by 11.4% in the USA and by 11.2% in Germany in 2009. Declines were also experienced in the United Kingdom (-3.5%), Switzerland (-1.6%), Sweden (-11.3%), Italy (-5.8%), Canada (-11.7%), Finland (-2.2%), Australia (-7.5%) and Israel (-17.2%).


The United States of America (USA) maintained its top ranking (Annex 2), filing just under a third of all international applications in 2009 (45,790), followed by

Japan (+3.6%, 29,827 applications),

Germany (-11.2% or 16,736 applications),

ROK (+2.1%, 8,066 applications),

China (29.7%, 7,946 applications),

France (+1.6%, 7166 applications),

United Kingdom (-3.5% or 5,320 applications),

the Netherlands (+3.0% or 4,471 applications),

Switzerland (-1.6% or 3,688 applications) and

Sweden (-11.3% or 3,667 applications).




Top Applicants [2] (Annex 3)


Panasonic [3] Corporation (Japan) returned to the top spot in the list of PCT applicants, nudging Huawei Technologies, Co., Ltd. (China) into second place.

Panasonic Corporation had 1,891 PCT applications published in 2009, China's Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. had 1,847, followed by

Robert Bosch GMBH (Germany, 1586 applications),

Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Netherlands, 1,295 applications) and

Qualcomm Incorporated (USA, 1280 applications).

Four Japanese companies, Panasonic Corporation (ranked 1st), NEC Corporation (ranked 8th), Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (ranked 9th) and Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (ranked 10th) featured in the list of top 10 largest filers.


The University of California accounted for the largest number of applications published in the category of educational institutions. Most top-filing universities, however, experienced declines in the number of international patent filings in 2009.


Developing Countries

The largest number of international applications received from developing countries in 2009 came from the Republic of Korea (8,066) and China (7,946) followed by India (761), Singapore (594), Brazil (480), South Africa (389), Turkey (371), Malaysia, (218), Mexico (185) and Barbados (96).


Developing countries make up over 78% of the membership of the PCT, representing 112 of the 142 countries that have signed up to the treaty and accounted for 14% of the total number of filings (with China and ROK accounting for 10%).

"In implementing the WIPO Development Agenda, WIPO is working very closely with member states to develop and roll-out projects that will enable all countries to reap the benefits of innovation and the knowledge economy" said Mr. Gurry. "In this context, maximizing participation in the PCT is a key priority. Membership of the PCT offers an opportunity for countries to bring their national patenting processes in line with international standards helping to create a more attractive investment environment. It further offers local companies a cost-effective means of obtaining patent protection in multiple countries" he added.


Fields of Technology

Declines and advances in PCT filings varied by technology area (annex 4). The greatest declines related to computer technology (12,560 applications, down 10.6% on 2008); pharmaceuticals (12,200 applications, down 8.0% on 2008) and medical technology (12,091 applications, down 5.9% on 2008). The largest growth rates were experienced in micro-structural and nano-technology (+10.2%), semiconductors (+10%) and thermal processes and apparatus (+ 7.2%).

The main fields of technology in which PCT applications are published are broken down according to the International Patent Classification (IPC) – a classification system designed to facilitate the retrieval of technical information found in patent documents worldwide.


Evolution of the PCT

PCT operations are under constant review to ensure that the system continues to deliver value added services to users. The system, first launched in 1978, is designed specifically to promote effective information sharing among patent offices, to avoid duplication of work and to facilitate access to valuable patent information. According to WIPO's Program and Budget for 2010/11, the Organization's objective is "to maintain and reinforce the PCT as the central node and work sharing tool of the international system and the preferred route for obtaining international patent protection."

WIPO and other patent offices have continually sought to streamline, modernize and enhance PCT operations to generate efficiency gains and to better serve the business community. As a consequence, some 80% of all PCT applications are now filed fully or partially in electronic format.


Other Developments

In 2009, WIPO‘s PATENTSCOPE® search service, which currently hosts data on more than 1.6 million international patent applications filed under the PCT, was further enhanced to include patent data collections of eight patent offices - African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO), Cuba, Israel, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Singapore, South Africa and Vietnam – making it possible to conduct high-quality, detailed and free-of-charge searches of the patent information of these offices. Further enhancements of this data search service are anticipated in 2010. WIPO provides technical assistance to offices to assist them in the digitization and dissemination of their patent data. This technical support is part of the Organization's commitment to supporting the development of a fully integrated global IP infrastructure and to increasing participation by developing and least developed countries in the benefits of the knowledge economy.


Impact of PCT Decline on WIPO's Budget


WIPO is a largely self-funding agency, drawing 95% of its income from services to the private sector. The PCT is one of WIPO's core income generating areas responsible for some 75% of the Organization's revenue. Since the onset of the global financial crisis, WIPO has closely monitored use of its fee-paying services and adopted prudent financial management and a range of cost-cutting measures. The Organization expects to report a positive result overall for the 2008/09 biennium. "This is a very positive result and reflects the seriousness with which we have taken the financial crisis," Mr. Gurry observed. "We will continue to monitor the situation and are hopeful that the PCT will return to positive growth in the near future."


Background

The PCT offers inventors and industry an advantageous route for obtaining patent protection internationally. By filing one "international" patent application under the PCT, protection of an invention can be sought simultaneously in each of a large number of countries. Both applicants and patent offices of PCT member states benefit from the uniform formality requirements, the international search and preliminary examination reports, and the centralized international publication provided by the PCT system. The national patent granting procedure and the related expenses are postponed, in the majority of cases, by up to 18 months (or even longer in the case of some offices) as compared with the traditional patent system. By this time, the applicant will have received important value-added information concerning the likelihood of obtaining patent protection as well as potential commercial interest in that invention.


International Patent Filings Dip in 2009 amid Global Economic Downturn


P.S. I believe China will pass Korea in 2010 to become the 4th largest behind US, Japan and Germany.

Can you provide me with a list of WIPO patent grants for 2009 to the top ten countries?

I know my fellow Americans. If I compile a list of patent applications then their first objection is that we don't know how many applications were rejected. I need the number of WIPO patents granted to individual countries for 2009.

WIPO's charts are not user-friendly. I cannot extract the information needed to create a top-ten chart from the massive data in their spreadsheets (e.g. the three "patents granted" tables). See Statistics on Patents

The best information that I can find is a chart of "Patent grants by patent office: top 20 offices, 2006" under "A.3.2: Total Patent Grants By Patent Office." See World Patent Report: A Statistical Review (2008)

I need the following to create an exciting list of top ten countries receiving WIPO patents.

1) The information has to be for patents granted and not patent applications.

2) The information has to be current (e.g. for 2009).

3) A chart isn't very useful. I need hard numbers to rank on a list.

4) I need a newslink where the reader can click on it and verify for themselves that the data is correct.

If you can point me to a newslink with reasonably easy-to-understand current data for 2009 WIPO patents granted then I would be happy to create another exciting "horse race" among countries for WIPO patents granted. An international WIPO list would make a good complement to my existing U.S.P.T.O. (i.e. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office) patents-granted list.
 
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