Patent applications - Patent applications among nonresidents

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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
Belgium	613	243	105	140	127	127	161	137	148	119	216	218	257	288	415
Bulgaria	331	709	52	17	21	14	15	16	11	11	23	18	7	7	6
Denmark	1,843	140	165	142	197	229	193	206	270	298	282	239	228	217	186
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
Greece	466	34	20	16	19	28	19	19	23	40	91	149	238	363	532
Hungary	1,976	4,127	497	47	36	66	66	73	64	49	36	36	23	28	13
Iceland	113	825	545	19	21	7	13	13	6	3	8	10	15	3	2
Italy		1,396		846	927	871	905	781		973	1,031	900	898	947	797
Luxembourg	165	91	64	21	43	52	56	90	119	301	512	243	359	679	1,441
Netherlands	764	529	633	240	310	338	449	288	287	314	365	394	449	825	1,390
Portugal	3,541	65	47	46	75	26	22	18	20	27	36	29	104	263	42
Romania	304	287	68	36	39	55	53	84	78	58	80	47	58	47	45
Norway	4,745	5,389	4,843	696	654	555	648	457	652	833	908	592	582	564	634
Poland	1,315	4,899	4,555	227	244	247	174	155	139	135	117	115	112	88	111
Spain	1,079	484	313	213	196	209	218	225	221	177	176	149	159	124	126
Turkiye	1,090	3,156	218	177	228	232	269	331	489	618	380	310	217	238	242
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
Croatia		538	649	21	21	32	23	30	17	13	11	15	16	12	11
Latvia		81	57	7	10	12	8	4	1	18	7	24	5	1	4
Lithuania		61	47	6	15	15	20	42	18	58	46	24	33	18	9
Slovenia		124	29	11	11							23		12	17
Czechia		4,384	244	114	97	150	97	62	72	47	66	54	48	56	59
Estonia		791	15	13	15	5	17	6	6	1	4	6	1	2	1
Slovak Republic		1,804	95	48	33	35	26	23	28	15	23	14	28	15	13
Albania			386		8		4	3	5	5	8	3	1		1
Montenegro				136	83	41

Patent applications among nonresidents (number)

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