EPO grants record number of European patents in 2016

Release time：2017-02-03　browse：2613　Source：本站

    Due to effective measures to improve its productivity, the European Patent Office (EPO) published 96 000 granted patents in 2016, which is 40% more than in 2015 and a new high mark in its history.

    The EPO's 2016 Annual Report, published today, also shows the Office recorded an unprecedented level of patent filings in 2016, reaching over 296 000, a rise of 6.2% (2015: 279 000).

    Innovating businesses from all over the world continued to file large numbers of European patent applications, with nearly half of all of them originating from the EPO's 38 member states. There was strong growth again in applications from China (+24.8%) and from the Republic of Korea (+6.5%), with Chinese applications exceeding ones from the Republic of Korea for the first time.

    From：http://www.epo.org