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Article: Patent applications continue rising in China despite global crisis, says WIPO
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- September 18, 2009
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Patent applications continue rising in China despite global
crisis, says WIPO
GENEVA, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- The number of international patent
applications continued to rise in China in the first half of 2009
despite the global economic crisis, the head of the World
Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) said on Friday.
Preliminary figures show international patent applications from
China in the first six months of this year were up 19 percent
compared with same period in 2008, WIPO Director-General Francis
Gurry told reporters.
But he said patent applications from the United States in the
first half of this year were down by 14 percent, mainly because of
the impact of the economic ...