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Cross comparison of US, EU, JP and Korean companies patenting activity in Japan and in the Peoples R.pdf

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Cross comparison of US, EU, JP and Korean companies patenting activity in Japan and in the Peoples R

World Patent Information 27 (2005) 125–134 /locate/worpatinCross comparison of US, EU, JP and Korean companies patenting activity in Japan and in the Peoples Republic of China Michael OKeeffe * Kroll Japan and Korea, 14F AIG Building, 1-3, Marunouchi, 1-chome, Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo 100-0005, JapanAbstract The purpose of this article is to compare and contrast the patent filing statistics of selected US, European, Japanese and Korean companies in Japan and China with their granted patent statistics in the USA to discern patenting in China trends. The companies are IBM, Canon, Hitachi, Fujitsu, SONY, NEC, Toshiba, Mitsubishi Electric, Matsushita, Samsung, LG Electronics, Siemens, Phi- lips, Intel, Motorola, General Electric, Hewlett Packard, Lucent Technologies, Procter Gamble, 3M and Kodak, and comparison charts are provided for each. The results suggest that a number of major Korean and European companies are now filing as many applications in China, and for LG Electronics twice as many, as the numbers of US granted patents they are obtaining. For most of the selected Japanese companies Chinese filings are now about half that of their US grants. For the selected US companies, the com- parison is rather different because US grants result from home filings, but indicate that these companies are only filing Chinese appli- cations, and also often Japanese applications too, at a rate that is a small fraction of their US grants. 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Keywords: Patent activity; Filing statistics; Grant statistics; China; US companies; European companies; Japanese companies; Korean companies1. Introduction Patent registrations are generally considered to be an indicator of a companys prowess in developing new products and an early predictor of likely future hit prod- ucts and higher company value and share price. Industry savants have heard all the arguments before about vol- umes of patents registered as opposed to the really small number of valuable bas