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Biodiversity patent trends for European countries (publication portfolio): Patent publication counts by publication year
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Patent applications based on genetic resources (SEBI 024) - Assessment published May 2010: Biodiversity has served as a major resource for patent activity across a wide swathe of science and technology sectors ranging from agriculture to cosmetics, functional foods, traditional medicines, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and emerging developments such as synthetic biology. About 9 % of European patent activity relates to biodiversity, rising to 16 % if the full spectrum of pharmaceutical activity is included. After rapid growth, patent activity for biodiversity now shows a declining trend. The decrease from 2005 seen in Figure 1 is due to the time lag between the filing of a patent and its publication (2 years and more). This means that for recent years, the data may not yet be in the database (see Oldham and Hall, 2009). Additional work is required to link the data with wider economic and geographical information.
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Patent registration trends: Trends in patent registration for selected patent offices including the 3 most popular ones (United States , Japan and China), European selected patent offices, China and Korea.
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Patenting activity for climate-energy related technologies, EU-27: The graph descirbes the time trend of the number of patents applications (by priority date) at EPO (European Patent Office), by total number and the number in single classes of technologies (pollution and waste; renewable energies; vehicle emissions and fuel economy; energy efficiency).
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Patenting activity for environment related technologies (SCP 041) - Assessment DRAFT created Apr 2012: The indicator addresses the second part of the policy question. The total number of patents applications in environmental technologies has been increasing steadily in EU-27 countries, as has their share in total patents registered in the EU. Total environment-related technology patents increased by 48% between 1999 and 2008, while their share in total patents increased from 6.6% to 8.6% over the same period. Increases have been dominated by a six-fold increase in patent applications in the area of renewable energy technologies. Patents in climate change mitigation and in combustion technologies with impact mitigation potential also saw rapid growth. However, these started from a much lower level and have not had a great influence on overall growth.
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Registered inventions: The bar sizes show, for each country, the number of applicants to register inventions, counted as patent families. A patent family is a set of inter-related applications on the same subject. Statistics based on patent families eliminate double counts (i.e. when the same invention is registered in different patent offices).
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