Women Inventors In Korea and China top WIPO Patent Filings

 

South Korea and China lead the West in patent filings where at least one female inventor was named.

In Korea it’s over 50%; in China it’s 48%.

In third place is the Western. country with the highest percentage – Belgium.

Then came Spain (35%), the USA (33%) France (32%) Netherlands, India and Switzerland (28%) Finland (25%) Canada and Denmark (24%) UK and Sweden (23%)  Australia (21%) Japan (20%) Germany (19%) Italy (18%) Austria (16%).

The figures were compiled by the World Intellectual Property Organisation and released to coincide with last Thursday’s World IP Day.


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