South Korea Has the Highest Rate of Granted Blockchain Patents

South Korea has the highest blockchain patent grant rate, according to London-based law firm Withers & Rogers.

Japan comes at a distant second, Intellectual property business media platform IAM reports on July 23.

Per the report, South Korea has the highest patent grant rate, followed by Japan, and the United States, with China significantly lagging behind.

The outlet suggests that a reason for this substantial disparity between China and the rest of the world is that a sizable portion of those patents outside China follow a procedure where the application is not published before the patent is granted.

In China, on the other hand, patent applications must be published before a substantive examination, which may be the reason why less than 2% of the Chinese blockchain patents examined have been granted.

The data is also in line with what Cointelegraph reported in June.

At the time data circulating on intellectual property news outlets, showed that the number of global blockchain patent filings significantly outstrips the patent filings for other technologies.