{"id":6982,"date":"2014-01-30T11:46:34","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T11:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.protectia.eu\/innovation-patent-quality\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T12:16:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T11:16:38","slug":"innovation-patent-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.protectia.eu\/en\/innovation-patent-quality\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation and patent quality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week for the<em> &#8220;Patents world&#8221;<\/em> section we present a very interesting video developed by the<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oecd.org\/\">OECD<\/a> <\/strong><em>(Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) <\/em>for the 2011 Science, Technology\u00a0\u00a0and Industry Scoreboard, to understand how innovation is evolving around the world.<\/p>\n<p>One way to measure technological innovation is by tracking the number of patents, and the video shows the way OECD used to measure patent quality: it compares patents recounted by the EPO over the past decade with those of the 1990-2000 period.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Patent Quality Index: How to Measure Technological Innovation?\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KiXj02bpL1g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The result is that <em>patent quality has declined of an average of 20%,<\/em> and in no countries major economies such as Great Britain, France or USA has improved.<\/p>\n<p>The study conducted by the OECD of patent quality in different technology sectors, allows to identify leaders in particular technological fields, for example: South Korea has a competitive advantage in ICT related innovations.<\/p>\n<p>The video also shows that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 15px;\"><strong>The EU is leading in clean energy technology<\/strong>, representing around 40% of all filings by the late 2000, followed by the US and Japan.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Thinking about the link existing between investments in R&amp;D and patents in general, we have to keep in mind that,\u00a0<em><strong>regarding patents, \u201cquantity\u201d is not as good as \u201cquality\u201d.<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week for the &#8220;Patents world&#8221; section we present a very interesting video developed by the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) for the 2011 Science, Technology\u00a0\u00a0and Industry Scoreboard, to understand how innovation is evolving around the world. 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