Indicator : Published patent applications in USPTO (Patent)

Description : The indicator shows the number of patents applications published (but not yet granted) 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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Published patent applications in USPTO (Patent)

		2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024 [June]
	World	382,483	381,792	374,731	376,609	394,879	413,535	410,297	418,119	418,249	215,070
1	USA	181,069	185,523	182,429	179,027	185,253	188,756	184,765	181,485	183,174	93,655
2	Japan	63,536	59,768	59,123	60,089	63,552	64,007	59,644	62,138	60,045	30,825
3	China	14,065	16,808	18,569	20,626	24,488	28,644	36,089	38,088	39,213	21,282
4	South Korea	26,097	25,824	23,306	22,702	23,593	27,943	28,643	32,203	35,786	18,511
5	Germany	20,075	18,845	18,429	19,194	19,490	20,173	19,541	20,345	18,709	9,785
6	Taiwan	15,983	14,052	12,958	12,375	13,664	14,650	14,438	15,095	15,743	7,772
7	France	8,651	8,165	7,845	7,703	7,344	7,747	7,081	8,016	7,397	3,883
8	UK	6,463	6,718	6,577	6,570	7,064	7,393	7,189	7,467	7,522	3,774
9	Switzerland	5,142	5,236	5,430	5,308	5,255	5,556	5,642	6,772	6,978	3,636
10	Canada	6,610	6,682	6,259	6,311	6,641	7,095	6,871	7,076	6,713	3,261
11	Sweden	4,257	4,245	3,670	3,740	3,902	4,364	4,454	5,194	4,932	2,549
12	Netherlands	4,685	4,703	4,703	4,853	4,784	5,088	4,525	4,441	4,306	2,291
13	Italy	2,647	2,694	2,738	2,760	2,938	2,953	3,039	3,263	3,190	1,649
14	Singapore	1,937	1,742	1,852	1,820	1,874	2,325	2,063	2,268	2,460	1,332
15	Finland	2,239	1,873	1,549	1,485	1,547	1,701	1,838	2,089	2,113	1,212
16	Australia	1,896	1,876	1,913	1,897	2,077	2,175	2,154	2,253	2,132	1,053
17	Ireland	904	984	1,061	1,120	1,568	1,769	1,685	1,653	1,832	949
18	Denmark	1,550	1,528	1,528	1,452	1,679	1,731	1,706	2,038	1,866	937
19	India	1,712	1,744	1,474	1,473	1,488	1,552	1,639	1,738	1,782	869
20	Belgium	1,331	1,349	1,385	1,455	1,548	1,570	1,529	1,641	1,641	801
21	Saudi Arabia	567	646	809	870	1,219	1,197	1,493	1,346	1,442	792
22	Austria	1,423	1,411	1,311	1,300	1,393	1,355	1,284	1,512	1,458	708
23	Spain	1,056	909	906	921	922	953	984	1,046	1,054	476
24	Norway	780	698	665	647	740	714	716	713	673	335
25	Brazil	379	358	362	353	340	363	383	456	498	265
26	New Zealand	406	386	408	356	341	395	456	486	375	246
27	Luxembourg	578	490	568	517	561	478	381	382	381	207
28	Turkey	211	194	216	247	226	260	319	356	329	187
29	Liechtenstein	190	189	207	219	248	251	254	300	274	135
30	UAE	96	130	126	121	113	135	152	175	164	125
31	Poland	231	243	188	222	223	201	253	253	260	119
32	Czech Republic	133	144	162	182	217	175	171	183	208	106
33	Russia	469	375	355	327	379	406	411	392	255	100
34	Lithuania	29	19	26	30	26	25	42	54	234	96
35	Portugal	93	124	106	131	138	133	174	171	146	90
36	Mexico	268	200	207	184	198	192	192	159	133	80
37	Thailand	61	81	97	122	179	151	141	126	97	64
38	Greece	94	98	96	104	109	92	128	115	89	56
39	Malaysia	208	174	137	118	130	102	106	133	90	55
40	South Africa	182	172	168	168	143	146	146	136	123	51
41	Chile	73	77	73	93	94	84	89	107	99	43
42	Iran	44	88	114	156	113	73	102	57	46	39
43	Hungary	92	103	87	79	89	90	109	94	73	38
44	Vietnam	12	11	11	20	26	46	49	42	71	35
45	Qatar	39	34	40	30	48	57	45	54	74	31
46	Iceland	88	76	65	72	71	70	54	81	59	31
47	Colombia	58	55	36	48	51	61	57	69	50	29
48	Cyprus	75	97	94	69	77	71	74	76	75	28
49	Argentina	63	69	60	78	60	79	65	65	72	25
50	Slovenia	33	60	39	50	49	62	56	49	62	23
51	Ukraine	42	34	45	52	51	46	45	65	38	20
52	Croatia	14	13	14	10	15	18	18	25	32	19
53	Bulgaria	49	41	22	33	27	22	27	28	27	19
54	Estonia	30	34	31	35	45	53	43	62	51	19
55	Romania	31	19	18	10	20	19	21	30	17	16
56	Slovakia	28	28	19	19	26	32	26	19	22	11
57	Latvia	8	11	4	11	11	15	17	23	14	11
58	Uruguay	6	9	13	21	15	11	16	18	13	8
59	Egypt	30	23	15	18	15	29	10	23	15	8
60	Angola			2	5	9	11		19		8
61	Philippines	43	37	28	28	38	28	27	29	18	7
62	Morocco	4	5	4	6	12	10	5	17	10	7
63	Panama	22	15	14	16	10	19	20	18	19	7
64	Cuba	13	12	4	6	6	8	9	10	13	7
65	Kazakhstan	6	8	5	4	13	8	4	2	5	6
66	Lebanon	13	10	18	19	17	16	15	15	11	6
67	Kuwait	23	23	23	25	24	17	14	20	12	5
68	Armenia	8	2	2	1	2	2	3	1	2	5
69	Serbia	12	4	16	10	20	15	11	17	14	4
70	North Korea	4	1	1	0	4	2	6	4	4	4
71	Pakistan	29	13	31	9	19	17	25	21	14	3
72	Costa rica	23	14	4	6	16	8	13	17	14	3
73	Jordan	16	15	18	21	11	3	10	9	10	3
74	Bahrain	5	5	3	3	5	2	2	1	1	3
75	Oman	1	3	2	6	2	3	5	0	7	3
76	Azerbaijan	1	1	2	2	3	5	3	2	3	3
77	Indonesia	19	9	7	13	9	8	7	13	3	3
78	Jamaica	6	5	8	5	3	6	4	5	3	2
79	Bosnia	2	1	0	0	1	2	0	3	1	2
80	Tunisia	11	2	5	5	6	4	3	6	5	2
81	Georgia	6	5	2	5	5	4	6	5	7	2
82	Algeria	2	2	0	1	0	4	2	0	0	2
83	Belarus	10	12	9	9	8	5	9	10	3	2
84	Venezuela	0	10	19	3	3	5	6	2	1	1
85	Peru	8	13	6	15	7	12	12	11	8	1
86	Syria	2	1	2	1	0	1	0	0	1	1
87	Uzbekistan	2	3	3	3	0	4	1	0	1	0
88	Paraguay	2	0	0	0	16	2	1	0	1	0
89	Iraq	5	0	1	0	1	4	1	3	1	0
90	Yemen	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
91	Afghanistan	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
92	Bangladesh	5	2	4	1	2	2	0	1	2	0
93	Nigeria	6	3	0	5	5	7	2	2	4	0

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