Huawei ranks first

Huawei Technologies, China's leading telecommunications equipment manufacturer, last year ranked No 1 in the world for the first time in terms of the number of its Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) patent applications, according to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Huawei filed a total of 1,737 applications in 2008.

Huawei was followed by Panasonic, Philips Electronics, Toyota and Robert Bosch GMBH.

International PCT filings totaled 164,000 last year, an increase of 2.4 percent year-on-year, WIPO said.

(Source: China Daily)

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