China patents surge in 2009 as U.S. filings plunge

2010/02/08 08:28:57 @Reuters: World News

GENEVA (Reuters) - China bucked an unprecedented decline in global patent filings last year, boosting its total by 29.7 percent, while the United States saw a fall of 11.4 percent, the world patent watchdog WIPO said on Monday. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=Wt7edbP6vS4:ZjpnHIdwKSo:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=Wt7edbP6vS4:ZjpnHIdwKSo:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=Wt7edbP6vS4:ZjpnHIdwKSo:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=Wt7edbP6vS4:ZjpnHIdwKSo:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=Wt7edbP6vS4:ZjpnHIdwKSo:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/Wt7edbP6vS4" height="1" width="1"/
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