Intellectual Property Magazine
Connected device patents increasing, EPO study reveals
Asian superpowers’ filing of 4IR-relatedpatents between 2010 and 2018 ‘has caused Europe to lose ground to other global4IR innovation centres’
Ben Wodecki
A new study from the European Patent Office (EPO) revealsthat global patent filings for smart connected devices grew nearly
five timesfaster than the average of all technology fields between 2010 and 2018.