WIKIMEDIA, GKU
U.S. universities led among academic institutions ranked by number of international patent filings in 2014, but institutions in other countries are quickly expanding their patent prowess, according to a report released last week (March 19) by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
Last year, 215,000 international patents were filed, a 4.5 percent increase from 2013. The three most prolific applicants were telecommunications firms, two from China and one from the U.S. In the educational institution rankings, the University of California system led with 413 applications, placing 47th overall. The next nine positions in the educational institution category were also U.S. universities: MIT (234 patents), the University of Texas system (154), Harvard (147), Johns Hopkins (135), Stanford (113), Columbia (112), Caltech (103), and Penn (94). Other ...
