Study: Foreign firms now control 29% of Germany's key patents

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2026-06-04

Berlin (dpa) - Germany is losing too many patents to companies in other countries through corporate takeovers, according to a study by the Cologne Institute for Economic Research (IW) commissioned by the Bertelsmann Foundation and published on Thursday. Foreign corporations now control around 29% of the 189,000 transnational patents produced by German companies between 2000 and 2022. "Most of the patents produced in Germany are controlled from t......

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