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After two years on top of Australian patent filing charts – including a remarkable (by Australian standards) 435 applications in 2020 – Chinese telecommunications manufacturer OPPO dropped back to third position in 2021.  The top spot was taken by last year’s runner-up, South Korea’s LG Electronics, which filed 251 new Australian standard patent applications, up from 236 in 2020.  China’s Huawei Technologies took second place, with 243 new applications, also increasing its filings, up from 229 in 2020.  Huawei now owns nearly 1,300 live Australian patents and applications, which is a significant investment for a company that is effectively barred from the Australian market.  It is likely, however, that many of these patents and applications cover standardised mobile and data communications technologies that are implemented across the industry, and which therefore provide Huawei with a substantial stream of licensing income.

The top Australian resident applicant, once again, was electronic gaming system developer Aristocrat Technologies.  However, from a peak of 252 applications filed in 2018, Aristocrat’s filings have declined significantly.  It filed only 72 new standard patent applications in 2021, falling to equal 21^st place in the annual ranking (alongside the University of Texas System).  Over the same period, Aristocrat has been engaged in a Federal Court battle with the Australian Patent Office in an effort to establish the patent-eligibility of many of its gaming-related inventions, recently suffering a setback in the form of a loss on appeal to a Full Bench of the Court.

The leading antipodean applicant is now New Zealand’s Fisher & Paykel Healthcare (which is separate these days from the well-known maker of home appliances).  Fisher & Paykel Healthcare filed 127 Australian standard patent applications in 2021, up from 94 the previous year, to take 7^th place in the rankings.  Ironically, the leading filer of New Zealand patent applications in 2021 was Australian medical device manufacturer Resmed, with 142 filings, while Fisher & Paykel Healthcare appears to have no interest in patent protection in its domestic market.  Meanwhile, Resmed followed the opposite trans-Tasman strategy, filing just 25 applications in its home market of Australia.

No other Australian (or New Zealand) applicant appeared in the top 30 filers for 2021.  The next highest Australian applicant, after Aristocrat, was the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), with 48 applications, followed by NewSouth Innovations (the University of New South Wales’ commercialisation arm) on 29.  The Australian top five was rounded out by Breville (26) and Resmed (25).

The top three filers of provisional applications were CSIRO (56), Resmed (51), and NewSouth Innovations (47).

Innovation patent filings were dominated, in the final few months of full operation of the system, by Chinese and Indian applicants, of which the top two were China’s Qingdao Agricultural University, and the delightfully-named Lovely Professional University in India.  The leading ‘credible’ filers of innovation patent applications in 2021 were US-based Calerpillar Inc (31 filings), agricultural chemical developer Imtrade Australia (26 filings), and Australian radio technology company Benelec (14 filings).

Read on for full tables of the leading filers for each application type.

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While February is just around the corner, Steam is not quite done shining a spotlight on the hardest hitting titles that came to the platform back in 2021. Earlier today, the distribution service officially shared its December 2021 Top Releases list, highlighting Steam's highest grossing games released last month based on their first two weeks of revenue.

According to Steam, nearly half of the games on December's Top Release list either made their debuts into early access or graduated from it. Titles that exited early access include the open-world RPG Sands of Salzaar, which initially released on January 3, 2020, as well as the cooperative shooter GTFO, which debuted on Steam back in December of 2019. Wartales and the tactical first-person shooter Ready or Not are just two of the games now entering early access.

Steam also noted that three of the games on this list--Anvil, Chorus, and Wartales--made an appearance during its Steam Next Fests, which began in 2021 as a means to showcase upcoming releases and has essentially replaced the company's Steam Game Festival. Following the first couple Steam Next Fest, the developers who appeared in the showcase and dished out demos of their upcoming releases reportedly saw a significant increase in game sales--making it not all that surprising that these titles went on to become some of December's highest grossing games. The next Steam Next Fest is scheduled to take place February 21-28, and will include hundreds of new demos and developer livestreams.

In addition to the December Top Releases List, Steam also shared the top five highest grossing DLCs released in December. To absolutely no one's surprise, Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker topped the list, followed by Oxygen Not Included - Spaced Out!, Planet Zoo: Europe Pack, Destiny 2: Bungie 30th Anniversary Pack, and theHunter: Call of the Wild - Mississippi Acres Preserve. Below is a full list of Steam's top grossing games of December:

Steam's 20 Highest Grossing Games of December

• Anvil
• Dynasty Warriors 9 Empires
• Thunder Tier One
• Propnight
• Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts
• Rune Factory 4 Special
• Sands of Salzaar
• Century: Age of Ashes
• Chorus
• After the Fall
• GTFO
• Monster Rancher 1 & 2 DX
• Wartales
• Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach
• Icarus
• WorldBox - God Simulator
• Ready or Not
• Shadow Tactics: Aiko's Choice
• Fights in Tight Spaces
• Karryn's Prison

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