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China Dominates Generative AI Patent Filings, UN Says


China has requested significantly more generative AI patents than any other country, the U.N. intellectual property agency (the World Intellectual Property Organization) is reporting. According to WIPO's first-ever report on GenAI patents, China submitted over 38,200 inventions in the past decade, d...

China has requested significantly more generative AI patents than any other country, the U.N. intellectual property agency (the World Intellectual Property Organization) is reporting. According to WIPO's first-ever report on GenAI patents, China submitted over 38,200 inventions in the past decade, dwarfing the United States' 6,300 filings. The study tracked approximately 54,000 GenAI-related patent applications from 2014 to 2023, with over a quarter emerging in the last year alone.

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