Asia continues to outpace other regions in filing activity for patents, utility models, trademarks and industrial designs, and accounts for 66.8% of all global patent applications worldwide. Over the last decade, Asia has seen an increase in its share of all applications filed around the world for
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Innovators around the world filed 3.3 million patent applications in 2018, up 5.2% for a ninth straight yearly increase. Trademark filing activity amounted to 14.3 million, up 15.5% and representing a fourth consecutive year of double-digit growth. Worldwide industrial design filing activity reached
There is a popular misconception that software related inventions (or “computer-implemented inventions”) cannot be patented. Don’t believe the hype! While it is true that there may be additional issues to consider compared to hardware based inventions, whether or not a software based invention