Greater China (14,351 U.S. patents) beats Germany again in 2011!

[Roybot]

No-one is claiming Taiwan shouldn't get any credit, both taiwan & china have filed more patents in 2011. Greater China isn't used to lower the perception of Taiwan's contribution.

Since Taiwan is the bigger contributor of the two its unfair to lump the countries under the tag of Greater China. Greater Taiwan is more apt.

 

[Martian2]

This is simple. China is the biggest manufacturer in the world. China is the biggest exporter to USA. China is selling to USA all kind of junk, like toys, radios, batteries, clothes etc etc And for every kind of that junk they submit patent to US regulators. So what is so amazing or extraordinary in this at all?

Most of China's exports are high-tech products.

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China's $751 Billion High-tech Exports for 2010

For 2010, China's top three high-tech exports for "Electrical machinery and equipment," "Power generation equipment," and "Optics and medical equipment" totaled $751 billion US dollars.

Greater China's patents provide the fundamental pillar for China's high-tech exports.

Source: US-China Trade Statistics and China's World Trade Statistics

[Note: Thank you to Hellraiser006 for reminding me to update China's export figures for 2010.]

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China is #4 in International Patent Filings. Among companies, ZTE is #1.

Annex 1 - PCT international applications – Top 15 countries (Source: International Patent Filings Set New Record in 2011)

2011 international patent filings by countries:

#1 United States - 48,596 filings
#2 Japan - 38,888
#3 Germany - 18,568
#4 China - 16,406

2011 international patent filings by companies:

#1 ZTE (China) - 2,826 filings
#2 Panasonic (Japan) - 2,463
#3 Huawei (China) - 1,831
#4 Sharp (Japan) - 1,755
#5 Bosch (Germany) - 1,518
#6 Qualcomm (USA) - 1,494

Intellectual Property News Agency(AG-IP-News) | News

"International Patent Filings Set New Record in 2011
05-Mar-2012 | Source : AG-IP News

GENEVA - Despite difficult economic conditions, international patent filings under the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)-administered Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) set a new record in 2011 with 181,900 applications – a growth of 10.7% on 2010 and the fastest growth since 2005. China, Japan and the United States of America (US) accounted for 82% of the total growth (annex 1). According to WIPO, Chinese telecommunications company ZTE Corporation was the biggest filer of PCT applications in 2011.

“The recovery in international patent filings that we saw in 2010 gained strength in 2011,” said WIPO Director General Francis Gurry. “This underlines the important role played by the PCT system in a world where innovation is an increasingly important feature of economic strategy. It also shows that companies have been continuing to innovate in 2011 – reassuring news in times of persistent economic uncertainty.”

Attesting to the rapid growth of the PCT system, 2011 also saw the filing of the two millionth PCT application, by US-based mobile technology company Qualcomm.

Among the top filing countries, PCT applications from China (+33.4%), Japan (+21%), Canada (+8.3%), the Republic of Korea (+8%) and the US (+8%) saw the fastest growth in 2011. European countries witnessed a mixed performance, with Switzerland (+7.3%), France (+5.8%), Germany (+5.7%) and Sweden (+4.6%) experiencing growth, and the Netherlands (-14%), Finland (-2.7%), Spain (-2.7%) and the United Kingdom (-1%) seeing declines. The large middle-income economies of the Russian Federation (+20.8%), Brazil (+17.2%) and India (+11.2%) recorded double-digit filing growth.

The US with 48,596 filings remains the largest user of the PCT system, followed by Japan (38,888), Germany (18,568) and China (16,406). However, the US (-0.7%) and Germany (-0.5%) saw drop in their shares of total filings, while China (+1.5) and Japan (+1.8) each increased their share by more than a percentage point.

Top applicants

ZTE Corporation of China with 2,826 published applications overtook Panasonic Corporation of Japan (2,463) as the top PCT applicant in 2011 (annex 2). Huawei Technologies, Co. of China (1,831) ranks third, followed by Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (1,755) of Japan and Robert Bosch Corporation (1,518) of Germany. Each of the top five applicants saw double-digit growth in published PCT applications. Five Japanese companies – Panasonic, Sharp, Toyota, NEC, and Mitsubishi – feature in the top 15-list.

The University of California, with 277 applications published in 2011, is the largest filer among educational institutions, followed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (179), the University of Texas System (127), Johns Hopkins University (111) and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (103). US universities account for 30 of the top-50 educational institutions, followed by Japan and the Republic of Korea with 7 institutions each (annex 3).

PCT filings by fields of technology

Digital communications with 11,574 (or 7.1% of total) published applications remained the field of technology accounting for the largest share of total PCT applications in 2011, followed by electronic machinery (6.9%), medical technology (6.6%) and computer technology (6.4%).

Most technology fields experienced growth in patenting in 2011. Electronic machinery (23.2%) saw the fastest growth, but 11 other fields also experienced double-digits growth (annex 4). Only 4 fields saw a decline in filings, including basic communication processes (-5.9%), organic fine chemistry (-4.1%), and pharmaceuticals (-1.9%).

The PCT system facilitates the process of seeking patent protection in multiple countries. It simplifies this process by postponing the requirement to file a separate application in each jurisdiction until after a centralized processing and initial patentability evaluation have taken place. Examination of the patentability of the invention in national offices and the related expenses are postponed, in the majority of cases, by up to 18 months – or even longer in some offices – as compared to direct patent filings. The PCT system now has 144 member states. Annex 5 presents total PCT filings from all member states from 2007 to 2011."

 

[ironman]

No-one is claiming Taiwan shouldn't get any credit, both taiwan & china have filed more patents in 2011. Greater China isn't used to lower the perception of Taiwan's contribution.

Tell that to the Chinese members here. Who created a voila threads on patent application.

http://www.defence.pk/forums/world-affairs/148227-china-outpaces-japan-us-patent-filings.html

http://www.defence.pk/forums/world-affairs/149269-china-overtakes-u-s-japan-top-innovative-country.html

http://www.defence.pk/forums/world-affairs/140249-china-awakening-patent-power.html

http://www.defence.pk/forums/chinese-defence/17405-china-will-overtake-japan-us-become-worlds-leading-innovator-2012-a.html

http://www.defence.pk/forums/chinese-defence/103164-patent-war-telecom-industry.html

http://www.defence.pk/forums/chinese-defence/55558-greater-china-surpasses-german-patents.html

http://www.defence.pk/forums/chinese-defence/55892-china-claims-9-rank-united-states-patents.html

 

[Martian2]

Tell that to the Chinese members here. Who created a voila threads on patent application.

http://www.defence.pk/forums/world-affairs/148227-china-outpaces-japan-us-patent-filings.html

http://www.defence.pk/forums/world-affairs/149269-china-overtakes-u-s-japan-top-innovative-country.html

http://www.defence.pk/forums/world-affairs/140249-china-awakening-patent-power.html

http://www.defence.pk/forums/chinese-defence/17405-china-will-overtake-japan-us-become-worlds-leading-innovator-2012-a.html

http://www.defence.pk/forums/chinese-defence/103164-patent-war-telecom-industry.html

http://www.defence.pk/forums/chinese-defence/55558-greater-china-surpasses-german-patents.html

http://www.defence.pk/forums/chinese-defence/55892-china-claims-9-rank-united-states-patents.html

Under the "One China" policy, all major and middle-sized countries in the world agree that mainland China and Taiwan are one nation. Your attempt to distinguish between ethnic Chinese people on Taiwan and mainland China is baseless.

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"One China" Policy

The One China situation of Mainland China and Taiwan must be looked at in the proper historical and current world context. As former President Jiang Zemin said to President Bill Clinton, Mainland China views Taiwan as being analogous to the American Civil War. For fifty years after the civil war in 1949, Taiwan had always unanimously agreed that the Chinese Civil War was unfinished. For decades, the KMT plotted to retake Mainland China by military force.

However, in the last ten years, the bad DPP party decided to push for Taiwanese independence. You cannot just walk away from a fifty-year civil war and unilaterally declare that it is over. Just like the American Civil War, secession is not recognized unless the whole country agrees to it. Secession is illegal. Similarly, Taiwan may not secede from China. The Chinese Civil War is unfinished.

In 1971, Taiwan was ejected from the U.N., because the world only recognizes one legitimate seat at the U.N. for China. The U.N. and the world agree with Mainland China that it is the sole representative of China and Taiwan. Hence, the consistent pledges of adherence to the "One China" principle by every major country in the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nation...Resolution_2758

"United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758 of 25 October 1971 recognized the representatives of the People's Republic of China (PRC) as "the only legitimate representative of China to the United Nations" and expelled the representatives of Chiang Kai-shek "from the place which they unlawfully occupy at the United Nations".[1]"

U.S. reaffirms commitment to one-China policy - People's Daily Online

"U.S. reaffirms commitment to one-China policy
08:11, March 30, 2010

The United States on Monday reaffirmed its commitment to the one-China policy, saying that it' s a commitment that should be the bedrock of the foundation of its relationship with China.

"The U.S. position on one-China policy is unchanged," Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg said at a briefing at the Foreign Press Center in downtown Washington D.C.."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/21/...in1426114.shtml

"Mar 21, 2006 ... Russia, China Pledge Closer Ties ... "Russia will continue the policy supporting 'one China' declared by the Chinese government ... and ..."

http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_...n/er/111567.pdf

"Nov 30, 2009 ... The EU reaffirmed its commitment to one China policy and ... follow-up EU-China NZEC project, and the pledge by the European Commission ..."

http://nigeria2.mofcom.gov.cn/aarticle/Chi...0204389659.html

"Feb 16, 2007 ... China, Japan pledge to strengthen defense exchanges ... He noted that the Japanese government has always supported the one-China policy. ..."

http://www.twocircles.net/2008jan14/india_...ooperation.html

"Jan 14, 2008 ... India, China Pledge To Promote Nuclear Cooperation ... New Delhi declared its adherence to "one China" policy and Beijing supported India's ..."

 

[Audio]

lol, indeed one China!
Except in one of them western weapons are being sold and the other is told it is still it's province.

 

[shuttler]

lol, indeed one China!
Except in one of them western weapons are being sold and the other is told it is still it's province.

In the event of a war in which the Mainland, Taiwan, HK, Macau or any of the Chinese Territories are affected, there will be mulitiple barrels all aiming at the enemy.

 

[rcrmj]

lol`those primitive indian things, just cant contain their inferior complexity, a private chinese company has more patent than entire sorry India that says it all about their primitive capability and low IQ, but master at day dreaming

 

[rcrmj]

and whether taiwan is part of China or not, at end the day we are all ethnic chinese, all of patent granted in the States are all to Chinese, besides in term of international patent grants, China is at top 4, Taiwan is top 20 and India is no where to be seen, so the best Indians can do is either making phone calls and 'operationg' cashiers

 

[rcrmj]

i bet huawei alone has more patents than all of india.

no need to bet, its the reality, ZTE and Huawei either company can humiliate India's so-called self-labeled 'technology powerhouse' delusion

 

[sweetgrape]

This is the rank by the patents in USA, I don't know why Indian are so happy to mock Mainland!!
It is hard to understand the indian mind, For they, they don't want to miss the chance to laugh at china, even they are behind us.
All this just prove they are loser, some indian said it is thread about china, Yes, so get away from the thread please. whatever it is Mailand, and taiwan, it is not your business, and you can't make the decision. Keep behind our ***, look at it, If you can!!

 

[Kyusuibu Honbu]

@rcmj

I don't about the first Indian things part.

"those primitive indian things, contain their inferior complexity, a private chinese company has more patent than entire sorry India"

But lets check the second part.

First when you said "has more patent" i guess you meant the patent fillings, not the patents granted

technically it not "has more patent" since it has not been granted.

If you were merely referring to patent applications then,



Based on the link provided by martian2 :

Annex 2: Published PCT international applications by top applicants:

ZTE CORPORATION
PCT application published in 2011: 2'826



Here Statistics on India from the same source as Martin 2 provided

Statistical Country Profiles

Patent Applications (Direct and PCT National Phase Entry) for Resident Indians for 2009 is 7,262

Unless you have a source which shows Patent Applications (Direct and PCT National Phase Entry) for Resident Indians for 2011 is less than 2'826 , I don't see how you can conclude:



"a private chinese company has more patent than entire sorry India"

 

[Fantasy]

Patent application alone do not translate to escaping any income trap. If that is the case Taiwan should have been a high income economy long ago, it is not. There's plenty of other economic factors that will determine a countries wealth. To be perfectly honest, China will not have escaped the middle income trap by 2035, or 2050, but it is still possible for a country like Taiwan to do so riding on the back of China's economic growth. Unless there is some massive revolution and innovation in technologies especially ones that will reduce our dependence on fossil fuels completely, China will never escape the middle income trap. Can you imagine 2 billion Chinese and Indians owning 2 cars each, sorry not going to happen ever without a massive technological leap, commercial patents alone won't do it. Besides that point you don't really need to give much credence to such indicators, wealth is just a matter of perception, a better indicator would be those used by Bhutan to measure your gross national happiness, i.e do you have enough to eat, are you living a healthy sustainable life style, are you having a good emotional quality. If i am an optimist and a politician, I did rather have India or China's problem honestly than Japan's problem despite it being more complicated in multitude and the fact that both countries will never reach high income in the foreseeable future, so patents be damn, this thread is another one of those my **** is bigger than yours troll thread.

 

[rcrmj]

@rcmj

I don't about the first Indian things part.

"those primitive indian things, contain their inferior complexity, a private chinese company has more patent than entire sorry India"

But lets check the second part.

First when you said "has more patent" i guess you meant the patent fillings, not the patents granted

technically it not "has more patent" since it has not been granted.

If you were merely referring to patent applications then,



Based on the link provided by martian2 :

Annex 2: Published PCT international applications by top applicants:

ZTE CORPORATION
PCT application published in 2011: 2'826



Here Statistics on India from the same source as Martin 2 provided

Statistical Country Profiles

Patent Applications (Direct and PCT National Phase Entry) for Resident Indians for 2009 is 7,262

Unless you have a source which shows Patent Applications (Direct and PCT National Phase Entry) for Resident Indians for 2011 is less than 2'826 , I don't see how you can conclude:



"a private chinese company has more patent than entire sorry India"

of course I meant patent granted, and just have a careful check on PCT's annual statistics of its system users, the amount patents either Huawei and ZTE granted from PCT is much more than whole India got from PCT, and that 7262 figures you got for India is the application from India and the grants are only lik 1700 (just have a thorough read of the source you posted)

 

[Fantasy]

Most of China's exports are high-tech products.

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China's $751 Billion High-tech Exports for 2010

For 2010, China's top three high-tech exports for "Electrical machinery and equipment," "Power generation equipment," and "Optics and medical equipment" totaled $751 billion US dollars.

Greater China's patents provide the fundamental pillar for China's high-tech exports.

Source: US-China Trade Statistics and China's World Trade Statistics

[Note: Thank you to Hellraiser006 for reminding me to update China's export figures for 2010.]

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China is #4 in International Patent Filings. Among companies, ZTE is #1.

Annex 1 - PCT international applications – Top 15 countries (Source: International Patent Filings Set New Record in 2011)

2011 international patent filings by countries:

#1 United States - 48,596 filings
#2 Japan - 38,888
#3 Germany - 18,568
#4 China - 16,406

2011 international patent filings by companies:

#1 ZTE (China) - 2,826 filings
#2 Panasonic (Japan) - 2,463
#3 Huawei (China) - 1,831
#4 Sharp (Japan) - 1,755
#5 Bosch (Germany) - 1,518
#6 Qualcomm (USA) - 1,494

Intellectual Property News Agency(AG-IP-News) | News

"International Patent Filings Set New Record in 2011
05-Mar-2012 | Source : AG-IP News

GENEVA - Despite difficult economic conditions, international patent filings under the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)-administered Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) set a new record in 2011 with 181,900 applications – a growth of 10.7% on 2010 and the fastest growth since 2005. China, Japan and the United States of America (US) accounted for 82% of the total growth (annex 1). According to WIPO, Chinese telecommunications company ZTE Corporation was the biggest filer of PCT applications in 2011.

“The recovery in international patent filings that we saw in 2010 gained strength in 2011,” said WIPO Director General Francis Gurry. “This underlines the important role played by the PCT system in a world where innovation is an increasingly important feature of economic strategy. It also shows that companies have been continuing to innovate in 2011 – reassuring news in times of persistent economic uncertainty.”

Attesting to the rapid growth of the PCT system, 2011 also saw the filing of the two millionth PCT application, by US-based mobile technology company Qualcomm.

Among the top filing countries, PCT applications from China (+33.4%), Japan (+21%), Canada (+8.3%), the Republic of Korea (+8%) and the US (+8%) saw the fastest growth in 2011. European countries witnessed a mixed performance, with Switzerland (+7.3%), France (+5.8%), Germany (+5.7%) and Sweden (+4.6%) experiencing growth, and the Netherlands (-14%), Finland (-2.7%), Spain (-2.7%) and the United Kingdom (-1%) seeing declines. The large middle-income economies of the Russian Federation (+20.8%), Brazil (+17.2%) and India (+11.2%) recorded double-digit filing growth.

The US with 48,596 filings remains the largest user of the PCT system, followed by Japan (38,888), Germany (18,568) and China (16,406). However, the US (-0.7%) and Germany (-0.5%) saw drop in their shares of total filings, while China (+1.5) and Japan (+1.8) each increased their share by more than a percentage point.

Top applicants

ZTE Corporation of China with 2,826 published applications overtook Panasonic Corporation of Japan (2,463) as the top PCT applicant in 2011 (annex 2). Huawei Technologies, Co. of China (1,831) ranks third, followed by Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (1,755) of Japan and Robert Bosch Corporation (1,518) of Germany. Each of the top five applicants saw double-digit growth in published PCT applications. Five Japanese companies – Panasonic, Sharp, Toyota, NEC, and Mitsubishi – feature in the top 15-list.

The University of California, with 277 applications published in 2011, is the largest filer among educational institutions, followed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (179), the University of Texas System (127), Johns Hopkins University (111) and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (103). US universities account for 30 of the top-50 educational institutions, followed by Japan and the Republic of Korea with 7 institutions each (annex 3).

PCT filings by fields of technology

Digital communications with 11,574 (or 7.1% of total) published applications remained the field of technology accounting for the largest share of total PCT applications in 2011, followed by electronic machinery (6.9%), medical technology (6.6%) and computer technology (6.4%).

Most technology fields experienced growth in patenting in 2011. Electronic machinery (23.2%) saw the fastest growth, but 11 other fields also experienced double-digits growth (annex 4). Only 4 fields saw a decline in filings, including basic communication processes (-5.9%), organic fine chemistry (-4.1%), and pharmaceuticals (-1.9%).

The PCT system facilitates the process of seeking patent protection in multiple countries. It simplifies this process by postponing the requirement to file a separate application in each jurisdiction until after a centralized processing and initial patentability evaluation have taken place. Examination of the patentability of the invention in national offices and the related expenses are postponed, in the majority of cases, by up to 18 months – or even longer in some offices – as compared to direct patent filings. The PCT system now has 144 member states. Annex 5 presents total PCT filings from all member states from 2007 to 2011."

Again most of these exports in electronic and machinery are foreign funded enterprises, they counted as Chinese exports but in fact it is the foreign firms are making a killing of Chinese labor to enhanced their own profit, anything even the finished product of multinational firms are Chinese exports as long as they are made in China. The statistic is the same statistic the USA use to launch a trade war against China, even though it is absurd.

 

[Kyusuibu Honbu]

of course I meant patent granted, and just have a careful check on PCT's annual statistics of its system users, the amount patents either Huawei and ZTE granted from PCT is much more than whole India got from PCT, and that 7262 figures you got for India is the application from India and the grants are only lik 1700 (just have a thorough read of the source you posted)

I rechecked the link and even Martian2 post # 47

Even he mentions it as fillings

International Patent Filings Set New Record in 2011

Still i can't see mention of patents granted unless PCT application published means patent granted.