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According to preliminary statistics announced today, 204,589 patent applications were filed before the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) in 2013. Patent applications stood at around 200 in 1949, before jumping to around 5,000 in 1980 and 100,000 in 2000. Over the past 13 years this has doubled to over ...

3D printing or "additive manufacturing" is a process of making a three-dimensional solid object of virtually any shape from a digital model. This is achieved by using an additive process, where successive layers of material are laid down in different shapes. The 3D printing industry is based mainly on a 30-year ...

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In 2012 the European Parliament voted positively in a first reading on the EU Council's compromise proposals for two draft EU regulations on a unitary patent for Europe. The first draft regulation concerns unitary patent protection, and the second sets out the translation arrangements for such protection. ...

Since December 2013, WIPO has officially launched a new online marketplace connecting a wide variety of groups seeking shared innovation and environmentally friendly technologies to address climate change, called WIPO GREEN. The WIPO GREEN database and network matches owners of new technologies with individuals or companies seeking to ...

A new WIPO report shows that during the last year global patent filings increased at their strongest rate in nearly two decades. Intellectual property (IP) filings have sharply rebounded since a 2009 decline at the height of the financial crisis. The report shows patent filings grew by 9.2% (2.35 million applications filed) in 2012. Utility model (UM) filings increased ...

Every year the patent global market spends billions of euros in technology licensing, royalty payments, litigation and infringement compensation claims. In all these cases, it is necessary to determine the economic value of patents concerned to estimate its impact on the industry to which they relate. And that usually implies a ...

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