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Distribution of major patentees of new textile material technology in the world
| Country/Region | Type of patentees | Number of patents | ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| CN | Company | 26605 | 77.32% |
| Colleges/institutes | 8405 | 24.43% | |
| Personnel | 545 | 1.58% | |
| US | Company | 10049 | 87.44% |
| Colleges/institutes | 1184 | 10.30% | |
| Personnel | 392 | 3.41% | |
| JP | Company | 12906 | 96.75% |
| Colleges/institutes | 540 | 4.05% | |
| Personnel | 190 | 1.42% | |
| KR | Company | 7903 | 76.83% |
| Colleges/institutes | 1375 | 13.37% | |
| Personnel | 1449 | 14.09% | |
| EP | Company | 6493 | 94.68% |
| Colleges/institutes | 266 | 3.88% | |
| Personnel | 165 | 2.41% |
Number and proportion of citations of global patents for new textile material technologies
| Citations of patents | China | USA | Japan | South Korea | Europe | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of patents | ratio | No. of patents | ratio | No. of patents | ratio | No. of patents | ratio | No. of patents | ratio | |
| 0 | 31275 | 90.91% | 5535 | 16.09% | 11943 | 34.71% | 7003 | 20.36% | 6158 | 17.90% |
| 1–5 | 3006 | 8.74% | 3655 | 31.80% | 1254 | 9.40% | 2692 | 26.18% | 643 | 9.39% |
| 6–10 | 93 | 0.27% | 934 | 8.13% | 99 | 0.74% | 403 | 3.92% | 36 | 0.53% |
| 11–50 | 28 | 0.08% | 1192 | 10.37% | 43 | 0.32% | 181 | 1.76% | 13 | 0.19% |
| 51–100 | 0 | 0.00% | 127 | 1.11% | 0 | 0.00% | 4 | 0.04% | 0 | 0.00% |
| >100 | 2 | 0.01% | 50 | 0.44% | 0 | 0.00% | 1 | 0.01% | 0 | 0.00% |
Patent layout matrix of new global textile material technology
| Country/Region | CN | US | JP | KR | EP | Total | Overseas proportion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN | 33177 | 670 | 293 | 107 | 158 | 34404 | 3.57% |
| US | 1409 | 6195 | 1495 | 778 | 1618 | 11495 | 46.11% |
| JP | 2410 | 2113 | 6224 | 1261 | 1331 | 13339 | 53.34% |
| KR | 408 | 593 | 408 | 8630 | 245 | 10284 | 16.08% |
| EP | 1034 | 1290 | 1175 | 768 | 2583 | 6850 | 62.29% |