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Indicator : Total patents in USPTO (Patent)
Description : The indicator shows the number of total granted patents in USPTO. According to WIPO, a patent is an exclusive right granted for an invention, which is a product or a process that provides, in general, a new way of doing something, or offers a new technical solution to a problem. To get a patent, technical information about the invention must be disclosed to the public in a patent application.
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Total patents in USPTO (Patent)

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
World 326,971 334,674 352,587 341,104 392,617 390,576 363,829 360,417 350,126 373,451 378,766
1 USA 164,919 170,006 180,549 172,674 198,766 196,443 178,291 169,036 173,379 169,460 164,569
2 China 8,706 10,975 14,038 16,101 22,294 25,737 28,680 35,187 34,253 46,570 52,998
3 Japan 55,351 52,961 53,365 50,944 57,465 55,205 48,405 47,795 40,377 45,582 45,633
4 South Korea 20,703 22,618 23,539 22,764 24,743 24,587 22,120 23,301 23,197 26,447 28,899
5 Germany 16,618 16,563 17,356 16,273 18,701 17,907 15,334 15,329 13,187 15,654 15,727
6 Taiwan 13,179 12,823 12,603 11,618 12,412 12,805 11,675 11,910 12,264 11,970 13,392
7 Switzerland 4,598 4,613 4,974 4,585 5,266 4,983 5,038 5,186 5,165 6,345 6,694
8 France 7,100 6,711 6,919 6,486 7,142 6,844 5,855 5,789 5,154 6,063 6,102
9 UK 4,777 4,892 5,478 5,468 6,484 6,217 5,576 5,336 5,030 5,782 5,871
10 Canada 5,528 5,072 5,417 5,064 6,002 5,779 5,457 5,273 5,468 5,637 5,657
11 Sweden 3,438 3,560 3,722 3,596 3,993 3,774 3,608 3,653 3,404 4,043 4,316
12 Netherlands 4,065 4,233 4,387 4,402 4,917 4,799 4,138 3,858 3,120 3,449 3,559
13 Italy 2,243 2,364 2,466 2,623 2,865 2,863 2,603 2,461 2,267 2,786 2,914
14 Singapore 1,662 1,865 1,905 1,791 2,029 1,977 1,918 1,905 1,721 1,954 2,156
15 Finland 1,662 1,826 1,927 1,522 1,664 1,557 1,394 1,500 1,401 1,737 1,939
16 Australia 1,534 1,405 1,536 1,549 1,764 1,903 1,838 1,709 1,577 1,911 1,836
17 Saudi Arabia 409 517 664 778 1,046 1,086 1,319 1,510 1,623 2,165 1,725
18 Denmark 1,175 1,197 1,236 1,244 1,433 1,397 1,351 1,486 1,318 1,629 1,637
19 Ireland 764 833 831 1,083 1,572 1,578 1,376 1,408 1,382 1,557 1,533
20 Belgium 982 1,039 1,148 1,144 1,294 1,254 1,100 1,203 1,059 1,248 1,273
21 India 897 909 1,045 1,036 1,218 1,179 1,058 1,091 788 1,031 1,160
22 Austria 965 1,104 1,266 1,164 1,294 1,181 1,067 1,029 912 1,225 1,109
23 Spain 668 607 669 625 729 733 635 725 583 683 798
24 Norway 542 527 549 566 615 651 579 577 507 553 577
25 New Zealand 280 274 299 319 375 409 385 386 331 417 464
26 Brazil 278 258 269 244 269 265 218 259 221 299 344
27 Luxembourg 641 548 504 440 525 437 383 346 339 296 305
28 Turkey 105 111 171 160 202 175 168 176 149 212 286
29 Poland 142 149 154 173 179 164 157 147 147 190 251
30 UAE 52 65 93 85 116 129 99 113 156 188 210
31 Liechtenstein 154 149 148 163 221 215 209 179 162 252 200
32 Czech Republic 61 87 101 149 193 190 117 136 142 147 137
33 Cyprus 68 87 130 118 118 114 118 132 92 85 116
34 Mexico 138 157 208 160 182 147 130 113 104 122 114
35 South Africa 145 147 136 129 149 131 101 105 82 130 114
36 Portugal 46 78 93 79 103 94 102 98 69 119 112
37 Russia 257 240 262 223 235 261 220 250 159 172 111
38 Lithuania 11 21 18 15 17 26 36 101 212 171 102
39 Thailand 57 52 73 74 115 150 98 73 51 86 101
40 Greece 49 48 74 64 83 71 72 73 71 69 90
41 Iceland 66 62 71 55 63 73 56 76 54 64 69
42 Malaysia 93 106 99 102 77 91 44 60 64 64 67
43 Chile 61 48 47 38 55 54 61 66 58 56 64
44 Slovenia 39 46 49 52 54 56 42 60 41 48 63
45 Hungary 68 58 82 66 79 80 63 60 58 49 57
46 Vietnam 7 13 10 15 15 27 35 34 41 68 52
47 Croatia 8 7 13 12 15 11 12 22 9 18 44
48 Colombia 30 35 24 36 33 46 38 38 45 38 44
49 Argentina 43 41 39 37 59 47 40 41 48 58 42
50 Estonia 25 23 22 34 41 27 38 47 45 39 39
51 Kuwait 64 48 45 33 45 27 19 20 21 27 39
52 Armenia 1 2 0 4 1 3 4 6 1 11 36
53 Qatar 8 13 22 29 31 29 28 42 42 39 32
54 Iran 31 29 40 54 87 120 71 72 42 38 31
55 Panama 9 8 13 8 7 8 18 16 29 23 26
56 Bulgaria 43 22 17 16 19 10 18 23 18 29 25
57 Romania 12 9 8 7 5 12 23 21 19 30 24
58 Ukraine 13 17 27 32 38 53 29 38 35 32 24
59 Indonesia 7 10 5 3 6 10 7 5 10 8 22
60 Latvia 5 8 8 9 11 14 12 12 14 12 20
61 Slovakia 19 10 17 18 18 30 14 19 14 14 17
62 Philippines 23 16 23 23 18 18 24 17 14 16 16
63 Morocco 5 0 2 8 1 1 26 9 18 15 15
64 Uruguay 4 10 6 8 13 11 6 8 9 11 15
65 Serbia 2 2 4 5 11 9 14 8 5 4 10
66 Egypt 13 13 11 16 10 14 13 12 7 12 10
67 Pakistan 13 15 12 11 17 13 9 12 13 15 7
68 Costa rica 10 20 10 6 9 16 18 5 12 12 6
69 Lebanon 7 11 10 7 11 12 13 8 11 10 6
70 Peru 6 4 11 6 10 12 3 3 9 10 6
71 Georgia 3 1 3 4 3 4 6 4 4 3 5
72 Bosnia 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 3 3 4
73 Tunisia 2 2 3 0 2 0 2 5 3 8 4
74 Jordan 15 9 11 11 13 2 7 2 2 8 4
75 Belarus 3 3 5 9 6 5 0 8 6 5 4
76 Cuba 12 10 11 7 3 4 5 2 6 5 4
77 Kazakhstan 5 3 6 3 5 6 6 4 5 2 3
78 Oman 4 0 5 5 3 3 2 1 2 0 3
79 Paraguay 1 0 0 3 0 3 0 1 0 0 2
80 Uzbekistan 1 1 1 3 3 1 2 2 0 0 2
81 Azerbaijan 2 1 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 2
82 Bangladesh 0 1 5 3 3 0 0 0 1 0 1
83 North Korea 8 11 4 5 7 4 4 1 0 1 1
84 Nigeria 0 1 3 0 0 2 2 4 1 0 1
85 Venezuela 25 7 4 4 3 2 4 4 2 2 1
86 Iraq 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 1
87 Bahrain 0 0 3 3 2 4 2 1 3 4 1
88 Syria 2 0 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0
89 Afghanistan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
90 Yemen 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
91 Algeria 1 1 1 2 0 0 1 1 1 1 0
92 Jamaica 4 4 8 2 6 7 1 11 4 2 0

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