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Google does published apps, China liberalizes and WIPO notes an Asian uprising
1. Google Patents is now sporting published patent applications. Steve used the new service to find the secret to Google’s success - Green Tea Extract.
2. China authorized 30 percent more patents in 2007 than in 2006 as part of a governmental “effort to liberalize its patent policy.” So it’s getting easier to get a patent in China and harder to get one in the United States. Makes you wonder where this train is headed.
3. …and more international applications are being filed from Asia. According to WIPO, the United States is first on the 2007 list of PCT-filing nations ranked by number of international applications filed. Japan is still second and Germany is still third. Notable moves on the list come from Asia: Korea overtook France for the fifth spot, and China filed 38% more international applications than she did last year, displacing The Netherlands for seventh place.
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