According to Francis Gurry, deputy director general of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), "'[n]ew centres of innovation—in particular in north-east Asia—are emerging and this is transforming both the geography of the patent system and of future global economic growth.'" Peter Ollier and Emma Barraclough, Meeting Asia's Patent Boom Challenge, MANAGING INTELL. PROP., Mar. 1, 2007.

Translation: Don't overlook patents from Asia.

Accordingly, several Asian patent and patent application databases—each with English-language content—were released on Westlaw:

• Asia Pacific Patents and Applications (ASIAPAC-ALL)
• Chinese Patent Applications (CN-PAT-APP)
• Chinese Patents (CN-PAT)
• Chinese Patents and Applications (CN-PAT-ALL)
• Japanese Patent Applications (JP-PAT-APP)
• Japanese Patents (JP-PAT)
• Japanese Patents and Applications (JP-PAT-ALL)
• South Korean Patent Applications (KR-PAT-APP)
• South Korean Patents (KR-PAT)
• South Korean Patents and Applications (KR-PAT-ALL)