TSMC led all rivals in Taiwan 305 patent applications for inventions in Taiwan in the 1st quarter, media report, followed by memory chip maker Nanya Technology (127) and power-supply king Delta Electronics (82). US-based Applied Materials was the 1st among foreign firms with 263 applications, followed by Japan’s Tokyo Electron at 236. Japan led all foreign nations with 3,538 patent applications in Taiwan during the quarter. Taiwan’s patent office received 17,063 patent applications in the 1st quarter, including 12,202 invention patents, 3,232 new utility model patents, and 1,629 design patents. $Taiwan Semiconductor(TSM.US) $Applied Materials(AMAT.US) $Tokyo Electron(TOELY.US) #semiconductor #semiconductors

Source: Dan Nystedt