The purpose of this article is to compare and contrast the patent filing statistics of selected US, European, Japanese and Korean companies in Japan and China with their granted patent statistics in the USA to discern patenting in China trends. The companies are IBM, Canon, Hitachi, Fujitsu,...

Changes to the criteria for accelerated examination in the Japanese Patent Office have resulted in some examined applications never appearing as A documents, being first published as B1 documents, often very quickly. The article explores the implications of this change for all involved in...