Sentences with phrase «annual number of patent»
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As companies rush to protect their IP, the total number of annual patent applications worldwide has soared — up almost 60 per cent between 1998 and 2008, according to the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva.
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The new patent figure for Google comes by way of the Financial Times (sub req'd), which cites an annual report by research firm IFI to claim that Google nearly doubled its patent claim from the previous year when it was only number 21 on the list with 1,151 new patents (Apple (s aapl) was 22).