Germany is the European leader in patent applications for innovations in the fight against cancer, a study by the European Patent Office (EPO) released on Wednesday showed. With top applicants such as Bayer and Siemens, Germany accounts for almost a quarter (23%) of the patent applicants based in Europe and more than 9,000 international patent families in this field between 2002 and 2021. A patent family is a group of patent applications that relate to the same or similar technical content. The authors wrote ahead of World Cancer Day on Sunday that Germany has maintained its leading position i…