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Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs Competition Committee

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

By the Secretariat

Considering the discussion at the roundtable, the delegates‘ written submissions and the Secretariat‘s background paper, several key points emerge:

(1) There has been a significant increase in the number and complexity of patent applications filed in the world‘s major patent agencies, resulting in a greater backlog and substantially longer pendency periods. More applications pending for longer periods have led to greater uncertainty about which inventions are and will be protected by patent rights.

The number of patents applied for and granted has grown sharply in the past 20 years, with the backlog of unprocessed applications now estimated to be 5 -10 million. This is in part due to globalisation and the expansion of geographic markets requiring multiple country filings, with the same invention frequently being examined by several different patent offices. In addition, economies such as China and Korea are advancing, creating patentable inventions of their own while becoming increasingly desirable places to hold patent rights. Finally, many of the types of technology for which patents can be granted are developing and becoming more complicated. All of these factors have led to a much greater number of pending patents remaining pending for longer than ever before.

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