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Old 05-Nov-2003, 17:08
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But even having the most number of non-residents’ applications, America only have 1.5M resident applications.
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  • But even though it has the most non-resident applications, America has only 1.5M resident applications.

That seems like a lot to me. :wink:

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While the whole trend of patent application has been rising, there is still a difference in the number of patents in different countries.
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  • While the number of patent applications has been on the increase, there is still a difference in the number of patents being issued in different countries.

I am not sure I understand the point behind that statement. It seems to suggest that we should expect different countries to issue the same number of patents. There are a number of reasons that is unrealistic, one obvious one being that different countries are of different sizes.

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At last, can I say " the application increased to 25m."?
Say: the number of applications increased.

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