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8 April 2020Influential Women in IPSarah Morgan

Patent filings: where are the women?

It’s taken 25 years for the share of women inventors named in international patent applications to almost double and, at its current pace, gender parity among Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)-listed inventors will only be reached in 2044. Look deeper, and the numbers are even more startling.

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