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DEFINITION: Patent applications, residents. Patent applications are worldwide patent applications filed through the Patent Cooperation Treaty procedure or with a national patent office for exclusive rights for an invention--a product or process that provides a new way of doing something or offers a new technical solution to a problem. A patent provides protection for the invention to the owner of the patent for a limited period, generally 20 years.
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# COUNTRY AMOUNT DATE GRAPH HISTORY
1 Germany 46,986 2011
2 Russia 26,495 2011
3 United Kingdom 15,343 2011
4 France 14,655 2011
5 Italy 8,794 2011
6 Turkey 3,885 2011
7 Poland 3,879 2011
8 Spain 3,430 2011
9 Ukraine 2,649 2011
10 Netherlands 2,585 2011
11 Austria 2,154 2011
12 Sweden 2,004 2011
13 Belarus 1,725 2011
14 Finland 1,650 2011
15 Switzerland 1,597 2011
16 Denmark 1,574 2011
17 Romania 1,424 2011
18 Norway 1,122 2011
19 Czech Republic 783 2011
20 Greece 728 2010
21 Hungary 662 2011
22 Belgium 636 2011
23 Portugal 571 2011
24 Ireland 494 2011
25 Slovenia 442 2010
26 Bulgaria 262 2011
27 Croatia 230 2011
28 Slovakia 224 2011
29 Azerbaijan 193 2011
30 Serbia 180 2011
31 Latvia 173 2011
32 Georgia 138 2011
33 Armenia 121 2011
34 Moldova 97 2011
35 Lithuania 93 2011
36 Luxembourg 85 2011
37 Estonia 62 2011
38 Iceland 50 2011
39 Bosnia and Herzegovina 43 2011
40 Republic of Macedonia 37 2011
41 Montenegro 20 2011
42 Malta 9 2011
43 Monaco 6 2011
44 Cyprus 4 2010
45 Albania 3 2011

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