Patent Brokers Market
The estimated number of patent brokers range vary greatly. For example, a 1999 WIPO paper estimated 500 "patent brokers" in the United States in. However, an August 2012 listing of patent brokerage companies includes only about 28 businesses worldwide. As none of these firms have a large number of employees, the 1999 estimates are either wrong as the number of businesses operating as patent brokers does not match the 1999 patent brokers estimates, or there has been a significant decline in the market for patent brokerage. Further research is required to estimate the number of patent brokers.
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