World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Director General Francis Gurry (C) speaks during a press conference in Geneva, Switzerland, March 18, 2019. Chinese telecoms giant Huawei Technologies was the top corporate filer of international patent applications in 2018, leading an Asia-based innovation surge accounting for over half of the applications submitted at the WIPO last year, WIPO said on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Xu Jinquan)