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

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2022 2023 2024 [June]
World 141,529 148,804 150,948 82,238 88,648 94,938 94,922 103,026 132,473
1 USA 37,205 42,716 41,274 12,869 14,709 15,650 13,442 15,347 27,387
2 Germany 22,857 22,442 22,132 11,146 12,096 12,423 11,732 11,727 12,474
3 Japan 21,564 20,823 21,191 20,619 21,569 21,577 20,707 20,221 11,579
4 China 5,536 6,302 8,521 7,396 9,549 12,021 15,946 19,129 10,815
5 South Korea 6,206 6,854 6,566 6,198 6,595 7,998 8,664 10,842 7,159
6 France 9,950 10,107 10,121 3,724 3,923 4,001 3,759 3,876 5,180
7 Switzerland 5,680 5,875 6,023 2,706 2,865 3,168 3,016 3,186 4,133
8 UK 4,627 5,085 4,993 1,459 1,799 2,108 1,558 1,803 3,411
9 Netherlands 4,295 4,609 4,785 1,522 2,140 2,251 1,981 2,107 2,837
10 Sweden 3,908 3,373 3,548 1,016 1,180 1,381 1,533 1,679 2,658
11 Italy 3,643 3,978 4,158 1,891 1,921 2,050 2,261 2,289 2,554
12 Finland 2,016 1,923 1,632 700 774 782 876 888 1,338
13 Canada 1,666 1,742 1,550 439 577 668 662 759 1,171
14 Austria 1,823 1,894 1,980 928 1,102 1,129 1,166 1,149 1,148
15 Belgium 1,530 1,631 1,702 838 870 942 877 915 1,121
16 Denmark 1,384 1,429 1,500 579 669 798 801 833 1,078
17 Spain 1,380 1,322 1,372 1,104 1,181 1,230 1,248 1,355 932
18 Taiwan 1,175 1,377 1,525 1,348 1,517 1,326 1,349 1,412 905
19 Ireland 468 508 516 232 307 395 391 445 620
20 Singapore 397 439 443 158 181 199 311 394 572
21 Australia 796 817 838 115 135 146 140 174 515
22 India 533 655 706 288 281 266 377 354 413
23 Norway 520 481 495 136 151 146 163 167 342
24 Poland 390 455 460 197 265 269 273 360 274
25 Turkey 415 438 525 273 450 155 199 130 243
26 Liechtenstein 333 322 392 162 213 238 224 261 206
27 Luxembourg 373 398 513 177 136 161 150 137 193
28 New Zealand 196 196 222 46 36 65 68 94 146
29 Portugal 122 158 144 86 108 136 101 176 138
30 Czech Republic 198 193 216 98 108 119 97 101 133
31 Brazil 202 183 234 109 140 133 158 165 122
32 Greece 81 80 82 42 47 48 94 110 99
33 Russia 241 200 221 182 202 244 199 135 71
34 Hungary 94 100 102 26 32 37 28 30 62
35 Saudi Arabia 185 261 173 18 33 31 26 14 61
36 Slovenia 114 123 98 58 50 56 73 62 60
37 Thailand 20 23 66 37 36 32 58 47 52
38 South Africa 105 96 130 10 15 9 7 5 50
39 UAE 29 62 39 15 8 3 24 31 49
40 Lithuania 31 33 28 10 9 13 40 45 47
41 Mexico 61 63 68 36 44 45 29 44 33
42 Romania 33 32 18 10 22 28 23 30 28
43 Slovakia 38 36 46 25 23 27 21 28 27
44 Malaysia 65 47 41 7 7 12 12 11 25
45 Chile 29 42 36 32 48 30 35 31 24
46 Croatia 12 12 14 3 2 6 7 18 23
47 Bulgaria 30 32 26 10 17 16 20 22 20
48 Cyprus 42 39 50 22 21 20 19 17 19
49 Estonia 34 33 35 21 17 19 27 25 19
50 Iceland 41 39 43 3 8 7 5 6 17
51 Latvia 61 15 21 10 9 15 15 3 13
52 Argentina 18 23 22 15 11 12 14 8 10
53 Colombia 19 13 21 12 12 12 15 11 8
54 Ukraine 18 11 23 13 11 13 18 9 8
55 Serbia 9 3 5 1 3 4 2 4 7
56 Cuba 9 6 2 3 7 8 8 14 7
57 Uruguay 9 4 8 10 2 2 4 6 4
58 Philippines 21 7 4 1 0 0 1 4 4
59 Vietnam 4 1 3 0 3 2 1 2 4
60 Panama 6 6 6 1 3 2 4 0 4
61 Morocco 4 2 4 1 1 1 1 0 3
62 Armenia 2 2 0 0 1 1 1 2 3
63 Egypt 7 5 1 6 2 0 7 6 2
64 Bosnia 1 0 0 1 0 1 4 0 2
65 Belarus 4 3 3 6 2 4 8 2 2
66 Tunisia 4 3 2 2 1 0 2 1 2
67 Lebanon 4 3 8 3 5 4 2 0 2
68 Nigeria 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1
69 Algeria 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
70 Pakistan 3 0 1 1 4 1 0 3 1
71 Azerbaijan 0 2 3 0 1 1 0 0 1
72 Costa rica 4 1 4 0 3 1 8 1 1
73 Kazakhstan 8 4 5 6 2 0 2 1 1
74 Jordan 3 6 2 1 0 0 0 0 1
75 Qatar 17 8 11 3 4 2 2 2 1
76 Iraq 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
77 North Korea 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
78 Venezuela 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
79 Oman 1 2 2 0 1 2 0 0 0
80 Indonesia 9 7 2 1 0 2 0 1 0
81 Peru 1 5 2 3 2 6 1 2 0
82 Uzbekistan 1 2 0 0 3 2 0 0 0
83 Syria 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
84 Iran 3 6 3 1 1 0 0 0 0
85 Georgia 3 0 2 0 0 1 2 2 0
86 Bangladesh 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
87 Bahrain 2 2 2 3 0 3 0 0 0
88 Kuwait 3 3 5 0 1 5 1 1 0
89 Angola 2 3 5 5 3 0
90 Jamaica 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0

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