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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 2024 [June]
World 69,528 97,360 107,162 129,047 139,386 135,184 110,090 83,661 106,358 54,348
1 USA 15,428 22,568 25,620 31,755 35,174 34,737 27,932 20,492 25,719 13,057
2 Germany 14,737 19,505 19,648 21,605 22,137 20,826 17,133 13,260 15,718 7,807
3 Japan 10,776 15,675 17,972 21,634 22,694 20,447 15,548 11,166 13,658 6,748
4 China 1,463 2,598 3,335 4,966 6,336 7,021 6,970 5,969 9,106 4,390
5 France 5,614 7,265 7,572 8,884 9,059 8,624 6,976 5,621 6,738 3,425
6 South Korea 2,013 3,252 4,482 6,306 7,381 7,098 5,892 4,438 5,627 2,949
7 Switzerland 3,403 4,373 4,298 4,768 5,106 5,207 4,168 3,173 4,338 2,295
8 UK 2,259 3,166 3,304 4,069 4,396 4,189 3,459 2,603 3,395 1,859
9 Italy 2,572 3,330 3,237 3,554 3,831 3,946 3,257 2,736 3,431 1,800
10 Netherlands 2,247 3,095 3,481 4,076 4,621 4,092 3,094 2,409 2,936 1,488
11 Sweden 1,985 2,720 2,968 3,572 3,897 3,613 2,945 2,258 2,903 1,351
12 Austria 1,087 1,428 1,544 1,730 1,736 1,818 1,374 1,213 1,565 796
13 Belgium 914 1,164 1,266 1,455 1,468 1,444 1,229 991 1,233 660
14 Denmark 744 1,090 1,127 1,190 1,339 1,334 1,172 820 1,242 626
15 Finland 760 1,109 1,252 1,579 1,640 1,577 1,240 879 1,210 586
16 Canada 791 1,038 1,264 1,641 1,745 1,474 1,168 758 1,059 502
17 Spain 565 806 847 1,005 974 949 833 617 946 438
18 Taiwan 445 664 708 990 1,031 1,155 977 671 827 436
19 Ireland 279 364 444 505 554 578 530 405 624 406
20 Australia 339 462 493 555 638 595 475 341 504 265
21 India 189 253 267 370 403 412 335 230 333 204
22 Singapore 121 191 277 403 446 441 329 255 390 202
23 Norway 264 337 376 431 454 475 423 324 420 201
24 Turkey 220 271 306 294 374 381 259 237 360 170
25 Liechtenstein 104 143 170 204 234 205 204 173 203 132
26 Poland 156 186 222 236 242 283 242 201 265 122
27 Luxembourg 222 299 431 480 409 386 310 219 237 107
28 Portugal 48 59 73 96 115 123 121 74 146 84
29 Czech Republic 78 98 135 130 175 165 149 95 146 76
30 New Zealand 53 73 127 128 138 172 136 84 136 68
31 Russia 85 114 138 163 135 141 110 69 107 55
32 Brazil 78 141 116 143 154 123 82 65 97 53
33 Slovenia 66 85 98 79 80 96 80 49 59 49
34 Saudi Arabia 51 90 129 170 192 188 193 159 126 36
35 Greece 23 41 37 51 56 92 69 61 69 34
36 UAE 5 14 23 25 30 37 35 24 23 29
37 Hungary 41 63 60 70 78 81 54 57 64 28
38 South Africa 64 79 56 78 76 86 53 39 55 26
39 Iceland 28 27 22 53 32 30 40 16 37 24
40 Mexico 45 35 63 69 63 61 49 26 47 23
41 Estonia 10 11 19 21 16 21 12 13 19 18
42 Thailand 7 7 7 20 43 49 37 28 33 16
43 Lithuania 12 17 22 15 25 21 20 23 21 15
44 Slovakia 12 15 18 28 34 18 36 18 27 14
45 Malaysia 26 25 31 39 38 33 20 11 17 13
46 Bulgaria 8 12 23 17 18 19 23 22 25 12
47 Romania 10 20 14 11 16 24 12 16 23 9
48 Chile 16 18 20 22 17 21 25 17 20 8
49 Cyprus 17 36 21 32 26 32 27 21 27 8
50 Latvia 8 19 14 12 6 5 19 9 16 6
51 Argentina 15 15 13 17 21 15 15 18 9 5
52 Morocco 1 0 1 1 2 4 2 2 6 4
53 Uruguay 4 2 6 7 4 3 5 4 5 4
54 Ukraine 4 10 6 11 6 7 7 7 16 4
55 Costa rica 0 1 0 1 3 2 1 2 4 4
56 Belarus 0 2 2 3 2 8 0 2 4 3
57 Serbia 0 1 0 8 5 6 1 4 7 3
58 Colombia 4 8 8 6 13 8 12 10 6 2
59 Vietnam 4 4 2 5 2 3 1 0 1 2
60 Iran 0 1 1 4 2 1 1 2 1 2
61 Tunisia 4 1 3 3 3 1 3 1 3 2
62 Lebanon 0 1 1 5 3 3 7 2 2 2
63 Croatia 6 6 6 6 14 11 8 14 8 2
64 Panama 3 1 2 3 3 1 1 2 3 2
65 Jordan 0 0 0 4 0 1 2 0 2 1
66 Armenia 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
67 Bangladesh 0 0 1 4 0 0 1 0 0 0
68 Egypt 3 3 1 3 3 6 0 1 1 0
69 Nigeria 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
70 Indonesia 3 5 3 1 3 1 0 1 0 0
71 Jamaica 0 2 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0
72 Kazakhstan 4 4 8 1 4 1 1 0 1 0
73 Kuwait 3 7 1 4 1 2 4 1 2 0
74 Algeria 0 1 2 1 1 0 0 2 0 0
75 Oman 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 1 0
76 North Korea 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0
77 Paraguay 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
78 Pakistan 0 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 2 0
79 Cuba 8 12 11 7 4 1 7 0 3 0
80 Peru 3 0 0 4 0 2 1 0 1 0
81 Bahrain 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 1 2 0
82 Qatar 2 5 3 2 8 5 3 2 1 0
83 Syria 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
84 Uzbekistan 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 2 0
85 Venezuela 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
86 Georgia 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0
87 Azerbaijan 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
88 Angola 2 1 3 4 2 0
89 Bosnia 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
90 Philippines 4 6 9 7 3 4 7 0 1 0

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