The car industry is up to its reputation as a German key industry not only in terms of trading volume With respect to the patent applications of the past year, six automakers and three automotive suppliers.
The supplier Bosch was 4230 applications at the top, followed by Schaeffler, one other supplier, and Ford, Also represented among the Top Ten are BMW, Daimler, VW and Audi, as the German Patent – and trademark office in Munich announced on Thursday. Only Siemens in tenth place in the sign-in most companies does not count for the auto industry.
Striking: Software and artificial intelligence (AI) are important, the applications in the division of computer engineering rose by about a quarter. Also, foreign companies and inventors to find a German Patent obviously increasingly attractive: The number of applications from abroad grew by seven percent to 21.286. “The stable Numbers at this high level, show how important the German market is also for innovative companies from abroad,” said Amtspräsidentin Cornelia Rudloff-Schäffer.
Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria in the front
Regionally, the picture of the previous years shows the same: The southern German States, with its strong industrial base are much more inventive than the North. Measured by the number of inhabitants, Baden-Württemberg, with 133 patent applications per 100,000 inhabitants from Bavaria, followed by Hamburg and lower Saxony. The conclusion of the lights are Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Saxony-Anhalt, with only nine patent applications per 100,000 inhabitants. In absolute Figures, Bavaria, 14.852 patent applications is to place one at the rear end of the table, the small Bremen with only 135.
ul/hb (dpa)