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 Patent applications, residents Rank Year

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Sources

Data published by
World Bank – World Development Indicators

Data publisher's source
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), WIPO Patent Report: Statistics on Worldwide Patent Activity. The International Bureau of WIPO assumes no responsibility with respect to the transformation of these data.

Link
https://datatopics.worldbank.org/world-development-indicators/

Last update by data publisher
2020-12-16

Variable time span
1980 : 2020