LCDs makers, Facebook surge ahead in 2017
SAN JOSE, Calif. , Jan. 09, 2018 – The U.S. patent system is back in stride with IBM still on top but Samsung and China are on the rise.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark office issued 320,003 utility grants in 2017, up 5.2 percent from the previous year. U.S. patents grew just two percent in 2016, rebounding from a rare one percent decline in 2015, blamed generally on a bad economy.
"We're more or less back on trend now," said Larry Clady, a senior analyst at IFI CLAIMS Patent Servicesthat released its annual report on subject.
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