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 | |  | | The rise of Asia's patent applications In a year that saw a record number of filings under the World Intellectual Property Organization Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), inventors from South Korea and China consolidated their top 10 positions in 2007, along with the United States, Japan, Germany, France, United Kingdom., the Netherlands, Switzerland and Sweden. There were 156,100 applications filed in 2007, representing 4.7 percent growth over the previous year.
| Coke bottle wins trademark in Japan The familiar curvaceous shape of the Coca-Cola bottle is now officially registered as a trademark in Japan — this nation's first such recognition of a three-dimensional bottle form devoid of any lettering.
| Apple patent application for solar-powered LCD panels hints at greener future Solar power is the cleanest energy source available. The energy from the sun doesn't need to be processed or packaged, and it's available in essentially unlimited supply. So, it makes sense that solar-power is making its way into the mobile space.
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