Patent applications - Patent applications among nonresidents - Ranking

G7 Topics Research and Development Patent applications

Patent applications are worldwide patent applications filed through the Patent Cooperation Treaty procedure or with a national patent office.

Patent applications among nonresidents (number)

	1990	2000	2005	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Japan	34,360	49,501	59,118	54,517	55,030	55,783	56,705	60,030	59,882	58,137	58,189	59,937	62,597	61,124	66,748
France	4,260	3,483	2,948	1,832	2,099	2,092	2,196	2,033	1,994	2,012	1,832	1,919	1,766	1,542	1,373
Germany	8,605	10,406	11,855	12,198	12,458	14,720	15,814	17,811	19,509	19,419	19,927	21,281	20,802	19,845	18,747
Italy		1,396		846	927	871	905	781		973	1,031	900	898	947	797
United Kingdom	8,928	10,697	10,155	6,439	6,916	7,865	7,966	7,844	7,934	8,183	8,771	8,076	7,189	8,659	7,263
Canada	24,375	35,435	34,705	30,899	30,357	30,533	30,174	31,283	32,687	30,667	30,969	31,812	32,250	30,113	32,445
United States	80,520	131,100	182,866	248,249	255,832	274,033	283,781	293,706	301,075	310,244	313,052	312,046	336,340	327,586	329,229