The statistics are straightforward: European inventors are falling behind in the
global patent rush. What is far less clear is whether this matters.
For most of the past 30 years, the leaders in patent filing were without doubt Japan and the US, with Europe bumping along in third place. But from the early 2000s, China began to emerge as a significant force, and each year since 2011 more patent applications have been filed in China than in any other intellectual property office around the globe.
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