Selon l’édition du mars 2008 du PCT Newsletter, le nombre total de demande PCT déposée a atteint 156,100, représentant une augmentation de 4,7% par rapport à 2006.
Voici la liste des déposants les plus occupés en 2006:
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Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd (JP) 2,100
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Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (NL) 2,041
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Siemens Aktiengesellschaft (DE) 1,644
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Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (CN) 1,365
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Robert Bosch GmbH (DE) 1,146
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Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP) 997
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Qualcomm Incorporated (US) 974
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Microsoft Corporation (US) 845
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Motorola, Inc. (US) 824
- Nokia Corporation (FI) 822
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Applicants from the United States of America filed the largest number of applications (52,280,which represents 33.5% of all applications), followed by Japan (17.8%), Germany (11.6%), the Republic of Korea (4.5%) and France (4.1%). Applicants from the member States of the European Patent Convention, when grouped together, filed 34% of all international applications.
There was continued high growth in filings from north east Asia, in particular from the Republic of Korea (18.8% increase) and China (38.1% increase), and Japan again held second position with 27,731 international applications.
Applicants are increasingly submitting their international applications electronically : filings in electronic form made up about 67.4% of all filings in 2007 (compared to 57.4% in 2006), 52.6% being filed fully electronically and 14.8% being filed using the PCT-EASY functionality of the PCT-SAFE software. Only 32.6% of applications filed in 2007 were filed entirely on paper (compared to 42.6% in 2006).
The main fields of technology under which PCT applications published in 2007 fell related to telecommunications (10.5% of all applications), information technology (10.1%) and pharmaceuticals (9.3%). The fastest growing areas of technology were nuclear engineering (24.5% increase over 2006) and telecommunications (15.5% increase).