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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.
Source : Orbit.com

Total patents in USPTO (Patent)

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

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