With 3,533 requests, Sweden came in tenth place worldwide, according to Dagens Nyheter.“What´s interesting with this report is that we broke the old record which was set during the IT-boom," said Fabian Edlund, a consultant with the company Awapatent, which compiled the figures.Telecoms giant Ericsson tops the list of Swedish companies with 597 international patent applications.The world´s most prolific company when it comes to patent applications is the Japanese electronics giant Matsushita.

Source: The Local