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Tech companies challenge Swiss giants for number of wristwatch patents

Swatch Group remained the world’s most inventive watchmaker in 2016, with a total of 243 patent applications filed in the year, almost a quarter of the total filed in Western markets. The Swiss Centre for Data Analysis (Centredoc) analysed patent applications in Germany, France, the UK, Switzerland, USA, and via the European Patent Office (EPO) […]