Richard CanonNews / Thursday, December 28, 2017 / Categories: Canon Patents This post may contain affiliate links(s). An affiliate link means I may earn advertising/referral fees if you make a purchase through my link, without any additional cost to you. It helps to keep this site afloat. Thank you in advance for your support. If you like what we do here, maybe buy me a coffee. Canon leads the way in Japan for Patent Applications When browsing through my patent application search engine I happened upon an overall summary for Japan companies. It's amazing just how busy Canon is in the patent process. This year, they have overwelmingly had the largest number of patent applications published. Some will say that this is counter to industry good manners, and by blocking things up in patents, they stifle competition. I've seen this argument many times, usually by those who favour companies don't really post alot of patents. I say hogwash, this helps protect your research and development investments and if they didn't patent it - someone else will. This of course is only the first step in a long chain. The patents have to be approved still. I find it interesting that Ricoh and Panasonic are both quite up there, and there's some notable missing companies in the top 10 such as Sony. Richard CanonNewsRichard CanonNews Richard has been using Canon cameras since the 1990s, with his first being the now legendary EOS-3. Since then, Richard has continued to use Canon cameras and now focuses mostly on infrared photography. Richard is the founder and editor of CanonNews since 2017, and has worked as a writer on CanonRumors and other websites in the past. Other posts by Richard CanonNews Contact author Facebook page Previous Article A flurry of super telephoto patent applications appear Next Article Another Quad Pixel AF sensor patent application Print Tags: Patents Please login or register to post comments.