Saturday, March 18, 2017

The Growth of Patent Information

by Steve Reiss (stevenreiss@scienbizippc.com)

The accepted international patent data base comprises 16 million
documents, averaging 16 pages per document, and has an annual growth
rate of approximately 500,000 documents.

    -- Patents, Innovation and Competition in Australia,
       Industrial Property Advisory Group,
       [Australian] Attorney General's Department, 1984.
 

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