China sets patent filing record: UN

China has become the first country to file more than a million patent applications in a year, leading a global innovation surge that has defied sluggish economic growth, the UN said Wednesday. "The figures for China are quite extraordinary," said Francis Gurry, head of the United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) while launching the body's annual report. China registered 1.1 million patents in 2015, more than the top three runners-up combined, WIPO said, referring to the Un