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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 2024 [June]
World 326,971 334,674 352,587 341,104 392,617 390,576 363,829 360,417 350,126 187,864
1 USA 164,919 170,006 180,549 172,674 198,766 196,443 178,291 169,036 173,379 86,976
2 China 8,706 10,975 14,038 16,101 22,294 25,737 28,680 35,187 34,253 22,640
3 Japan 55,351 52,961 53,365 50,944 57,465 55,205 48,405 47,795 40,377 22,240
4 South Korea 20,703 22,618 23,539 22,764 24,743 24,587 22,120 23,301 23,197 12,985
5 Germany 16,618 16,563 17,356 16,273 18,701 17,907 15,334 15,329 13,187 7,808
6 Taiwan 13,179 12,823 12,603 11,618 12,412 12,805 11,675 11,910 12,264 5,941
7 Switzerland 4,598 4,613 4,974 4,585 5,266 4,983 5,038 5,186 5,165 3,173
8 France 7,100 6,711 6,919 6,486 7,142 6,844 5,855 5,789 5,154 2,923
9 UK 4,777 4,892 5,478 5,468 6,484 6,217 5,576 5,336 5,030 2,853
10 Canada 5,528 5,072 5,417 5,064 6,002 5,779 5,457 5,273 5,468 2,803
11 Sweden 3,438 3,560 3,722 3,596 3,993 3,774 3,608 3,653 3,404 1,988
12 Netherlands 4,065 4,233 4,387 4,402 4,917 4,799 4,138 3,858 3,120 1,750
13 Italy 2,243 2,364 2,466 2,623 2,865 2,863 2,603 2,461 2,267 1,369
14 Saudi Arabia 409 517 664 778 1,046 1,086 1,319 1,510 1,623 1,165
15 Australia 1,534 1,405 1,536 1,549 1,764 1,903 1,838 1,709 1,577 999
16 Singapore 1,662 1,865 1,905 1,791 2,029 1,977 1,918 1,905 1,721 999
17 Denmark 1,175 1,197 1,236 1,244 1,433 1,397 1,351 1,486 1,318 847
18 Finland 1,662 1,826 1,927 1,522 1,664 1,557 1,394 1,500 1,401 834
19 Ireland 764 833 831 1,083 1,572 1,578 1,376 1,408 1,382 788
20 Austria 965 1,104 1,266 1,164 1,294 1,181 1,067 1,029 912 627
21 Belgium 982 1,039 1,148 1,144 1,294 1,254 1,100 1,203 1,059 623
22 India 897 909 1,045 1,036 1,218 1,179 1,058 1,091 788 499
23 Spain 668 607 669 625 729 733 635 725 583 346
24 Norway 542 527 549 566 615 651 579 577 507 276
25 New Zealand 280 274 299 319 375 409 385 386 331 197
26 Luxembourg 641 548 504 440 525 437 383 346 339 147
27 Brazil 278 258 269 244 269 265 218 259 221 142
28 Liechtenstein 154 149 148 163 221 215 209 179 162 109
29 Turkey 105 111 171 160 202 175 168 176 149 105
30 UAE 52 65 93 85 116 129 99 113 156 103
31 Lithuania 11 21 18 15 17 26 36 101 212 91
32 Russia 257 240 262 223 235 261 220 250 159 88
33 Poland 142 149 154 173 179 164 157 147 147 88
34 South Africa 145 147 136 129 149 131 101 105 82 73
35 Czech Republic 61 87 101 149 193 190 117 136 142 66
36 Mexico 138 157 208 160 182 147 130 113 104 63
37 Portugal 46 78 93 79 103 94 102 98 69 61
38 Cyprus 68 87 130 118 118 114 118 132 92 52
39 Thailand 57 52 73 74 115 150 98 73 51 45
40 Malaysia 93 106 99 102 77 91 44 60 64 40
41 Greece 49 48 74 64 83 71 72 73 71 28
42 Hungary 68 58 82 66 79 80 63 60 58 28
43 Argentina 43 41 39 37 59 47 40 41 48 28
44 Vietnam 7 13 10 15 15 27 35 34 41 26
45 Iran 31 29 40 54 87 120 71 72 42 25
46 Iceland 66 62 71 55 63 73 56 76 54 23
47 Slovenia 39 46 49 52 54 56 42 60 41 22
48 Colombia 30 35 24 36 33 46 38 38 45 22
49 Chile 61 48 47 38 55 54 61 66 58 21
50 Estonia 25 23 22 34 41 27 38 47 45 20
51 Ukraine 13 17 27 32 38 53 29 38 35 19
52 Qatar 8 13 22 29 31 29 28 42 42 19
53 Kuwait 64 48 45 33 45 27 19 20 21 14
54 Bulgaria 43 22 17 16 19 10 18 23 18 13
55 Slovakia 19 10 17 18 18 30 14 19 14 11
56 Costa rica 10 20 10 6 9 16 18 5 12 9
57 Pakistan 13 15 12 11 17 13 9 12 13 9
58 Romania 12 9 8 7 5 12 23 21 19 9
59 Philippines 23 16 23 23 18 18 24 17 14 8
60 Angola 3 1 6 6 14 7
61 Peru 6 4 11 6 10 12 3 3 9 7
62 Croatia 8 7 13 12 15 11 12 22 9 7
63 Panama 9 8 13 8 7 8 18 16 29 7
64 Latvia 5 8 8 9 11 14 12 12 14 6
65 Lebanon 7 11 10 7 11 12 13 8 11 6
66 Indonesia 7 10 5 3 6 10 7 5 10 5
67 Uruguay 4 10 6 8 13 11 6 8 9 5
68 Morocco 5 0 2 8 1 1 26 9 18 4
69 Jordan 15 9 11 11 13 2 7 2 2 4
70 Egypt 13 13 11 16 10 14 13 12 7 4
71 Cuba 12 10 11 7 3 4 5 2 6 4
72 Belarus 3 3 5 9 6 5 0 8 6 4
73 Tunisia 2 2 3 0 2 0 2 5 3 2
74 Georgia 3 1 3 4 3 4 6 4 4 2
75 Bahrain 0 0 3 3 2 4 2 1 3 2
76 North Korea 8 11 4 5 7 4 4 1 0 1
77 Serbia 2 2 4 5 11 9 14 8 5 1
78 Jamaica 4 4 8 2 6 7 1 11 4 1
79 Algeria 1 1 1 2 0 0 1 1 1 1
80 Armenia 1 2 0 4 1 3 4 6 1 1
81 Kazakhstan 5 3 6 3 5 6 6 4 5 1
82 Bosnia 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 3 0
83 Yemen 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
84 Afghanistan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
85 Nigeria 0 1 3 0 0 2 2 4 1 0
86 Oman 4 0 5 5 3 3 2 1 2 0
87 Paraguay 1 0 0 3 0 3 0 1 0 0
88 Syria 2 0 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 0
89 Uzbekistan 1 1 1 3 3 1 2 2 0 0
90 Bangladesh 0 1 5 3 3 0 0 0 1 0
91 Venezuela 25 7 4 4 3 2 4 4 2 0
92 Iraq 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
93 Azerbaijan 2 1 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0