The UK leads Europe for generativeAIpatent filings but Germany is closing the gap.
WIPO today releaseda reporton 54,000 GenAI inventions from the decade ending in 2023.
Over 25% of them emerged in the last year alone.
Thats a whopping six times more than the second-place US, which filed 6,276.
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The UK takes sixth places with 714 patents pipping Germanys 708.
In recent years, however, Germany has published more patents than its European rival.
The Munich-headquartered corporation has numerous patent families based on image and videodata.
In theworldwide rankings, the company takes 16th place.
The UK, meanwhile, hosts several global leaders in GenAI research.
No other European entities earned a place in this list.
Notably, Googles parent company, Alphabet, is the only corporation in the top 20.
When it comes to citations, however, Alphabet is the runaway leader.
The company had over 47,000 citations for itsGenAI publications almost double that of second-place University of California, Berkeley.
Again, no other European entities feature in this list.
In WIPOs view, every nation can benefit from the new data.
Story byThomas Macaulay
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