Telecom patents
The telecommunication industry, with the proportion of 10.5 percent, has become the largest sector for patent applications in the world, according to 2007 International Patent Application Statistics promulgated by the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO). And China's telecommunication industry ranked the seventh in the world with an annual increase of 38.1 percent.
As of the end of 2007, China's telecommunication giant ZTE filed more than 1,300 international patent applications and possessed over 10 thousand invention patents. According to the Chief Intellectual Property Officer of ZTE Guo Xiaoming, the Shenzhen-based company is the leader in patent numbers and proportion of invention patents. ZTE has achieved major breakthroughs in 3G, NGN (next generation network) and IPTV Chinese manufacturers with ZET as a representative have even outstripped some European and American manufacturers.
(Source: China Daily)
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