National University of SingaporeNUS Enterprise

Asia Pacific Intellectual Property Scorecard 2009

IP Academy (IPA) of Singapore has commissioned NEC to follow up on an earlier project which developed an annual Scorecard of IP performance among Asian nations and organisations.  Modeled after MIT Technology Review’s annual global ranking of leading patenting organisations in the world (now published by The Patents Board), the original Scorecard project focused on Asia and developed additional performance indicators. This follow-on project updates the previously constructed AsiaPac IP Scorecard with patents granted by the USPTO and EPO up to June 30^th 2009.  The scorecard ranks the leading patent producing economies and provides insights into the trends of IP creation and quality in the Asia Pacific Region.