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Figure 0.6 Number of patent publications per year Patents in marine biotechnology were exponentially increasing over time. There is a real hot spot of patenting between 2000 and 2010. All later values cannot be interpreted because the period till 2014 has not yet finished. For a closer look onto the development of marine patents the next diagrams are listed in 1-year periods. The years before 1986 were not considered. Study in support of Impact Assessment work on Blue Biotechnology 101

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