The United States continues to lead the world in nanotechnology patent applications and grants, and is poised to see a period of exponential growth in the field in the next few years, according to "Intellectual Property in the Next Technology Revolution: How Does the United States Stack Up?," a study by the law firm McDermott Will & Emery.
The leadership role is important because the next technology revolution will likely be based on nanotechnologythe understanding and control of matter at the nanoscale, the study’s authors say. One nano is one-billionth of a meterin other words, a nanometer is so small, a human hair is 40,000 nanometers thick, and one page of a book is about 100,000 nanometers.
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