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DEFINITION:
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.".
CONTENTS
# | COUNTRY | AMOUNT | DATE | GRAPH | HISTORY |
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1 | United States | 210,062 | 2006 | ||
2 | China | 80,155 | 2005 | ||
3 | Japan | 72,661 | 2006 | ||
4 | Canada | 37,927 | 2006 | ||
5 | European Union | 32,555 | 2004 | ||
6 | Brazil | 20,487 | 2006 | ||
7 | Mexico | 14,976 | 2006 | ||
8 | Germany | 13,372 | 2006 | ||
9 | Russia | 9,858 | 2006 | ||
10 | Singapore | 8,759 | 2006 | ||
11 | United Kingdom | 8,582 | 2006 | ||
12 | Israel | 7,263 | 2006 | ||
13 | New Zealand | 5,248 | 2006 | ||
14 | Norway | 4,843 | 2005 | ||
15 | Indonesia | 4,069 | 2005 | ||
16 | Philippines | 2,539 | 2004 | ||
17 | Ukraine | 2,418 | 2006 | ||
18 | Serbia and Montenegro | 1,282 | 2002 | ||
19 | Vietnam | 1,210 | 2000 | ||
Former Soviet republics average (profile) | 974.42 | 1997 | |||
20 | Austria | 745 | 2006 | ||
21 | Poland | 655 | 2006 | ||
22 | Netherlands | 633 | 1996 | ||
23 | Algeria | 608 | 2006 | ||
24 | Ecuador | 580 | 2005 | ||
25 | Trinidad and Tobago | 551 | 2006 | ||
26 | Morocco | 521 | 2005 | ||
27 | Sweden | 420 | 2006 | ||
28 | Turkey | 383 | 2003 | ||
29 | Belarus | 382 | 2004 | ||
30 | Switzerland | 375 | 2006 | ||
31 | Iceland | 330 | 2006 | ||
32 | Spain | 329 | 2006 | ||
33 | Georgia | 299 | 2006 | ||
34 | Hungary | 209 | 2006 | ||
35 | Finland | 205 | 2006 | ||
36 | Czech Republic | 195 | 2006 | ||
=37 | Denmark | 191 | 2006 | ||
=37 | Cuba | 191 | 2005 | ||
39 | Uzbekistan | 186 | 2006 | ||
40 | Sri Lanka | 180 | 1996 | ||
41 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 162 | 2006 | ||
42 | Croatia | 122 | 2006 | ||
43 | Mongolia | 110 | 2006 | ||
44 | Kazakhstan | 102 | 2003 | ||
45 | Slovakia | 90 | 2006 | ||
46 | Luxembourg | 64 | 2005 | ||
47 | Romania | 62 | 2006 | ||
48 | Bulgaria | 48 | 2006 | ||
49 | Slovenia | 42 | 2004 | ||
50 | Madagascar | 40 | 2006 | ||
51 | Latvia | 38 | 2006 | ||
52 | Portugal | 36 | 2006 | ||
53 | Lithuania | 35 | 2006 | ||
54 | Kenya | 30 | 1999 | ||
55 | Malawi | 17 | 2000 | ||
56 | Turkmenistan | 16 | 1998 | ||
57 | Kyrgyzstan | 14 | 2001 | ||
=58 | Moldova | 9 | 2006 | ||
=58 | Estonia | 9 | 2006 | ||
=60 | Armenia | 2 | 2005 | ||
=60 | Tajikistan | 2 | 2004 |