To the guy claiming S Korea has more patents than the US I did some research into WIPO s latest database 2007 to stop both of you from making non sense claims and reveal the truth So here we go straight from the horse s mouth South Korea had the world s largest filings per GDP ahead of all countries South Korea had the world s largest filings per R D ahead of all countries South Korea had the world s 2nd largest filings per million population ahead of USA and Germany UK and France South Korea had the world s 3rd largest resident filings ahead of EU and Germany UK France and Canada South Korea had the world s 4th largest total patent filings ahead of EU Germany Canada UK and France Source So I guess Lakshmix claim isn t completely wrong but Aerain is right in that the US has more total patents than S Korea I think the sentence simply needs rephrasing as you can see above