China increased the number of patents it filed with the European Patent Office by nearly 20 per cent between 2013 and 2014—largely thanks to the telecommunications firms Huawei and ZTE.
A statement by the Chinese Academy of Sciences says that applications to the EPO from China reached 26,472 in 2014, accounting for about 9 per cent of the total number. However, China only received 2 per cent of the awarded patents.
Huawei and ZTE accounted for nearly 70 per cent of all Chinese applications in 2014.
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