Patent Registration by Latin American Inventors and Applicants - Follow-up

In an earlier post, we looked at patent registrations by Latin American investors and applicants. Earlier this week there was an article in one oh Chile´s leading newspapers (El Mercurio) analying the same topic. While the results are broadly consistent, details differ substantially. Our assumption is that the main reason for the differences are the use of a different database: EPO in our case, INAPI (Instituto Nacional de Propiedad Industrial, the Chilean patent office) in the case of "El Mercurio".

We will only provide an update of the EPO numbers in the beginning of 2015.