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South African patenting trends based on the European Patent Office (EPO)’s worldwide patent statistical database (PATSTAT)
2024-07-23
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>This study describes South African (SA) patenting trends based on data from the European Patent Office’s (EPO) patent statistics (PATSTAT) database. We aimed to answer; where, what, and with whom are South Africans patenting over the past 22 years (<italic>i.e.,</italic> 2000 to 2021). By counting the number of patent families and applications per office/authority we described the inten...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 473b1e7f-2a8c-53f1-b87b-61fafdfa150f
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4780903/v1