IP Spotlight - April 2025

This growth is reflected in the extremely strong growth in global patent filings for the inventions in the optics and photonics industry, showing steady growth of about 13% annually over the 10 years between 2012 and 2022. This is a similar trend seen in the broad semiconductor and quantum technology industries which has seen very rapid growth in the past 10 years globally: an average of approximately 6.5% growth per year for the semiconductor industry and more than 11% growth per year for quantum technologies across all quantum applications including quantum computing and quantum sensing etc.

GLOBAL PATENT FAMILY FILINGS FOR OPTICS AND PHOTONICS

GLOBAL PATENT FAMILY FILINGS FOR SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGIES

GLOBAL PATENT FAMILY FILINGS FOR QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES

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