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