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Chemical Abstracts Service
(CAS), the global expert on chemical information, reports that China's patent
office is now the world's leading producer of patent invention applications
in chemistry. China trailed Japan's patent office, the World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO), and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
for more than a decade, but passed the USPTO in 2005, WIPO in 2006, and exceeded
Japan for the first time on a monthly basis in 2008. In 2009, China will record
an entire year as the number one producer of chemical patents, and CAS projects
that trend to continue.
Quote attributable to Dr. Matthew Toussant, senior vice president of editorial
operations, CAS:
"Chemistry is widely recognized as 'the central science.' Chemical patents
are a critical component to many industrial processes and scientific realms,
including medicine and natural products. In fact, on average, 35 percent of
new patent invention applications involve chemical substances."
Quote attributable to Christine McCue, vice president of marketing at CAS:
"CAS has been recording the phenomenal growth of patent documents in the
last decade, with the number of chemistry-related patent publications by the
USPTO and WIPO growing by more than 500 percent. Meanwhile, Chinese invention
applications increased by nearly 1,400 percent, with much of that growth taking
place in the pharmaceutical sector. More than half of the China patent applications
during this period were from inventors within China, which surely indicates
that Chinese scientists now also recognize the importance of monetizing research
discoveries."
Key Facts:
- Hundreds of CAS scientists, aided by state-of-the-art technology, identify
and record the chemistry obscured in patents that standard search engines
cannot locate.
- Proprietary technology systems developed by CAS enable scientists working
around the world to analyze patents from 60 global patent authorities. Patent
documents meeting CAS selection criteria from nine major patent offices are
available in CAS databases within two days of the patents' issuance, and are
fully indexed in less than 27 days.
- CAS scientists add value to the data they collect, entering chemical names,
a unique CAS Registry Number®, literature references, property data, commercial
availability, preparation details, spectra, and regulatory information from
international sources into CAS databases.
Posted November 24th, 2009
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