New report reveals global patenting trends in space technologies: The influx of private capital has been a factor in an astonishing increase in patent filing activity, up threefold or more in the period 2007 to 2017. Much of the increase from European operators has come from Germany and France - and of these some 85% of the patents are owned by private companies. https://www.epo.org/news-events/news/2021/20210721a.html
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