Brazil, China, Singapore, Israel and India have been hailed as the most effective patenting nations between 2005 and 2015. The US-based Centre for Advancing Innovation, a non-profit that aims to accelerate tech transfer, and intellectual property analytics and management platform PatSnap have produced The Innovation Arms Race 2018 report – but it is bad news for the US and the EU, which both appear to be losing the game.
The US had already lost its leadership in global patenting metrics…