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DEFINITION:
Patent applications are applications filed 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.
CONTENTS
# | COUNTRY | AMOUNT | DATE | GRAPH | HISTORY |
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1 | Germany | 48,329 | 2004 | ||
2 | United Kingdom | 18,816 | 2004 | ||
3 | France | 14,230 | 2004 | ||
4 | Italy | 7,877 | 2000 | ||
5 | Spain | 2,864 | 2004 | ||
6 | Sweden | 2,752 | 2004 | ||
7 | Poland | 2,381 | 2004 | ||
8 | Netherlands | 2,187 | 2004 | ||
9 | Finland | 2,004 | 2004 | ||
10 | Austria | 1,965 | 2004 | ||
11 | Denmark | 1,843 | 2004 | ||
12 | Romania | 937 | 2004 | ||
13 | Ireland | 787 | 2004 | ||
14 | Hungary | 738 | 2004 | ||
15 | Czech Republic | 619 | 2004 | ||
16 | Belgium | 519 | 2003 | ||
17 | Greece | 487 | 2004 | ||
18 | Croatia | 383 | 2004 | ||
19 | Slovenia | 327 | 2004 | ||
20 | Bulgaria | 263 | 2004 | ||
21 | Slovakia | 214 | 2004 | ||
22 | Portugal | 121 | 2004 | ||
23 | Latvia | 107 | 2004 | ||
24 | Lithuania | 69 | 2004 | ||
25 | Estonia | 27 | 2004 | ||
26 | Malta | 22 | 2002 | ||
27 | Luxembourg | 16 | 2003 | ||
28 | Cyprus | 9 | 2004 |