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Indicator : Total patents in EPO (Patent)
Description : The indicator shows the number of total granted patents in EPO. 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 EPO (Patent)

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 [June]
World 69,528 97,360 107,162 129,047 139,386 135,184 110,090 83,661 43,422
1 USA 15,428 22,568 25,620 31,755 35,174 34,737 27,932 20,492 10,250
2 Germany 14,737 19,505 19,648 21,605 22,137 20,826 17,133 13,260 6,748
3 Japan 10,776 15,675 17,972 21,634 22,694 20,447 15,548 11,166 5,618
4 China 1,463 2,598 3,335 4,966 6,336 7,021 6,970 5,969 3,674
5 France 5,614 7,265 7,572 8,884 9,059 8,624 6,976 5,621 2,808
6 South Korea 2,013 3,252 4,482 6,306 7,381 7,098 5,892 4,438 2,350
7 Switzerland 3,403 4,373 4,298 4,768 5,106 5,207 4,168 3,173 1,838
8 UK 2,259 3,166 3,304 4,069 4,396 4,189 3,459 2,603 1,378
9 Italy 2,572 3,330 3,237 3,554 3,831 3,946 3,257 2,736 1,303
10 Sweden 1,985 2,720 2,968 3,572 3,897 3,613 2,945 2,258 1,181
11 Netherlands 2,247 3,095 3,481 4,076 4,621 4,092 3,094 2,409 1,141
12 Austria 1,087 1,428 1,544 1,730 1,736 1,818 1,374 1,213 685
13 Denmark 744 1,090 1,127 1,190 1,339 1,334 1,172 820 539
14 Belgium 914 1,164 1,266 1,455 1,468 1,444 1,229 991 482
15 Finland 760 1,109 1,252 1,579 1,640 1,577 1,240 879 471
16 Canada 791 1,038 1,264 1,641 1,745 1,474 1,168 758 394
17 Spain 565 806 847 1,005 974 949 833 617 380
18 Taiwan 445 664 708 990 1,031 1,155 977 671 359
19 Ireland 279 364 444 505 554 578 530 405 249
20 Australia 339 462 493 555 638 595 475 341 193
21 Turkey 220 271 306 294 374 381 259 237 166
22 Norway 264 337 376 431 454 475 423 324 162
23 India 189 253 267 370 403 412 335 230 137
24 Singapore 121 191 277 403 446 441 329 255 132
25 Poland 156 186 222 236 242 283 242 201 116
26 Luxembourg 222 299 431 480 409 386 310 219 100
27 Liechtenstein 104 143 170 204 234 205 204 173 96
28 Portugal 48 59 73 96 115 123 121 74 69
29 Czech Republic 78 98 135 130 175 165 149 95 65
30 New Zealand 53 73 127 128 138 172 136 84 63
31 Saudi Arabia 51 90 129 170 192 188 193 159 62
32 Brazil 78 141 116 143 154 123 82 65 41
33 Russia 85 114 138 163 135 141 110 69 36
34 Greece 23 41 37 51 56 92 69 61 28
35 South Africa 64 79 56 78 76 86 53 39 26
36 Hungary 41 63 60 70 78 81 54 57 21
37 Slovenia 66 85 98 79 80 96 80 49 20
38 Mexico 45 35 63 69 63 61 49 26 17
39 Slovakia 12 15 18 28 34 18 36 18 16
40 Thailand 7 7 7 20 43 49 37 28 14
41 Iceland 28 27 22 53 32 30 40 16 12
42 Chile 16 18 20 22 17 21 25 17 11
43 Cyprus 17 36 21 32 26 32 27 21 11
44 Romania 10 20 14 11 16 24 12 16 11
45 Estonia 10 11 19 21 16 21 12 13 10
46 Bulgaria 8 12 23 17 18 19 23 22 10
47 Malaysia 26 25 31 39 38 33 20 11 9
48 Lithuania 12 17 22 15 25 21 20 23 8
49 UAE 5 14 23 25 30 37 35 24 7
50 Ukraine 4 10 6 11 6 7 7 7 6
51 Croatia 6 6 6 6 14 11 8 14 5
52 Latvia 8 19 14 12 6 5 19 9 4
53 Argentina 15 15 13 17 21 15 15 18 3
54 Morocco 1 0 1 1 2 4 2 2 3
55 Serbia 0 1 0 8 5 6 1 4 3
56 Costa rica 0 1 0 1 3 2 1 2 2
57 Uruguay 4 2 6 7 4 3 5 4 2
58 Colombia 4 8 8 6 13 8 12 10 1
59 Vietnam 4 4 2 5 2 3 1 0 1
60 Pakistan 0 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 1
61 Panama 3 1 2 3 3 1 1 2 1
62 Iran 0 1 1 4 2 1 1 2 1
63 Tunisia 4 1 3 3 3 1 3 1 1
64 Oman 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 1
65 Philippines 4 6 9 7 3 4 7 0 1
66 Cuba 8 12 11 7 4 1 7 0 1
67 Kuwait 3 7 1 4 1 2 4 1 1
68 Kazakhstan 4 4 8 1 4 1 1 0 1
69 Bahrain 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 1 1
70 Lebanon 0 1 1 5 3 3 7 2 0
71 Paraguay 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
72 Nigeria 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
73 Georgia 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0
74 Jordan 0 0 0 4 0 1 2 0 0
75 Jamaica 0 2 0 1 1 1 0 0 0
76 North Korea 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0
77 Algeria 0 1 2 1 1 0 0 2 0
78 Peru 3 0 0 4 0 2 1 0 0
79 Qatar 2 5 3 2 8 5 3 2 0
80 Uzbekistan 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0
81 Venezuela 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
82 Indonesia 3 5 3 1 3 1 0 1 0
83 Egypt 3 3 1 3 3 6 0 1 0
84 Belarus 0 2 2 3 2 8 0 2 0
85 Bangladesh 0 0 1 4 0 0 1 0 0
86 Azerbaijan 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
87 Bosnia 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
88 Angola 2 1 3 4 2 0
89 Armenia 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0
90 Syria 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0

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