NANOTECH PATENTS

By this measure the United States position appears to be very strong. United
States assignees dominate all other countries in patents issued by the USPTO.
According to an analysis by the USPTO of patents in the United States and in other
nations, U.S. origin inventors and assignees/owners have:
! the most nanotechnology-related U.S. patents by a wide margin;
! the most nanotechnology-related patent publications globally, but by
a narrower margin (followed closely by Japan); and
! the most nanotechnology-related inventions that have patent
publications in three or more countries, 31.7% — an indication of a
more aggressive pursuit of international intellectual property
protection and, by inference, of its perceived potential value. By this
measurement, the United States is followed by Japan (26.9%),
Germany (11.3%), Korea (6.6%), and France (3.6%).43

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