2014 UK Patent Applications Up From 2013

2014 was a busy year for the UK's engineers and scientists as new statistics released by the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK IPO) show that patent applications from UK-based inventors have increased. Regionally, leading the way were London and the South East of England, whose inventors accounted for over a third of all patent filings nationally. The number of patent applications filed by foreign inventors remains high, with at least 7,850 patents filed in the UK naming a foreign applicant. This figure is slightly down compared to 2013, having dropped by a little less than two per cent, although this still represents strong interest in the UK by foreign applicants overall.

The figures reveal that the UK's largest recipient of granted patents in 2014 was global technology giant IBM, to which the UK IPO granted over 300 patents. Dyson, often seen as the darling of UK innovation, were the UK's largest domestic recipient of granted patents last year, adding around 120