29.02.2008
Matsushita Number One In PCT Filings
The WIPO has just published the 2007 statistics on the number of patent filings under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).
The figures are a compliment for Japanese inventors, who were able to maintain their second place position with 17.8% of the total number of PCT applications. Japan’s largest producer of electronics, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., (internationally better known by their brand name Panasonic) published 2,100 applications in 2007 and ranks number 1 of the PCT filing applicants. Matsushita could overtake Philips with 59 applications (Philips Electronics N.V. published 2,041 applications in 2007). Siemens ranks number 3 with 1,644 applications.
Among the 20 top filing companies, there were six Japanese, six U.S. and three German corporations.
