Chinese telecoms giant Huawei filed more patents applications than any other company in the world last year, according to new stats from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

 

世界知识产权组织的最新统计数据显示，2018年中国通讯巨头华为提交的专利申请数量比世界上任何一家公司都多。

 

The company has kept its dominance as the top corporate¹ filer with a record number of 5,405 international patent filings to the U.N. body in 2018, up from 4,024 in 2017.

 

The number of patent filings by Huawei is almost as twice as many as Mitsubishi Electric of Japan filed last year, which came in at 2,812. Intel ranked third with 2,499 filings, followed by Qualcomm (2,404) and ZTE (2,080). ZTE, which was the top applicant² in 2016, saw a nearly 30 percent drop in the number of published patent filings last year.

 

In total, applicants³ from China filed 53,345 patent applications to the WIPO, the second largest number in 2018, following U.S.-based applicants that made 56,142 applications. The WIPO expects that China will surpass the U.S. within the next two years if current trends hold.

 

Over half of patent applications filed last year came from Asia, noted⁴ the WIPO.

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