June PCT Newsletter
June 15, 2004 on 8:20 am | In International |
The June PCT Newsletter is available here [pdf]. Articles of note:
Most Frequent PCT Users in 2003.
In 2003, 225 applicants accounted for 33,586 (31.2%) of the 107,729 international applications published, each of them with 50 or more applications published. Of these 225 applicants, 167 were from one of the following three countries: the United States of America (36.4% of the total), Japan (23.1%), and Germany (14.7%). There were 92 applicants in each of whose names 100 or more international applications were published.
Top Ten:
1. Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (NL) 2,278 applications
2. Siemens Aktiengesellschaft (DE) 1,180 applications
3. Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (JP) 1,071 applications
4. Robert Bosch GmbH (DE) 958 applications
5. Sony Corporation (JP) 822 applications
6. Nokia Corporation (FI) 765 applications
7. Motorola Inc. (US) 715 applications
8. 3M Innovative Properties Company (US) 609 applications
9. Intel Corporation (US) 551 applications
10. Infineon Technologies AG (DE) 540 applications
Other US in top 35:
13. The Procter & Gamble Company (US) 439 applications
15. Qualcomm Incorporated (US) 421 applications
16. Honeywell International Inc. (US) 416 applications
17. Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. (US) 366 applications
18. E.I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company (US) 351 applications
20. The Regents of the University of California (US) 297 applications
23. International Business Machines Corporation (US) 257 applications
24. Scimed Life Systems, Inc. (US) 245 applications
25. Applied Materials, Inc. (US) 236 applications
28. Medtronic, Inc. (US) 201 applications
30. Merck & Co., Inc. (US) 197 applications
35. General Electric Company (US) 184 applications
Practical Advice–Applicability of power of attorney waivers
Q: I refer to the recent amendments to the PCT Regulations which introduced the possibility for receiving Offices to waive the requirement that powers of attorney be submitted. Does this mean that, if the receiving Office with which the international application is filed has made such a waiver, the applicants no longer need to sign the request or a power of attorney appointing the agent (or common representative) who has signed the request?
A. (see the newsletter)
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