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
Australia	13,278	20,073	21,302	22,478	23,143	23,731	26,656	23,968	26,314	25,774	26,403	27,200	27,121	26,926	29,443
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
Korea, Rep.	16,738	29,179	38,733	38,296	40,890	40,779	44,611	46,219	46,419	45,406	45,691	47,431	47,372	46,282	51,753
New Zealand	3,869	5,585	5,112	5,051	4,708	5,674	5,167	6,092	5,317	5,311	5,146	5,221	5,690	5,417	6,522
Austria	670	340	235	249	276	294	244	271	236	237	232	168	208	173	175
Belgium	613	243	105	140	127	127	161	137	148	119	216	218	257	288	415
Denmark	1,843	140	165	142	197	229	193	206	270	298	282	239	228	217	186
Finland	4,410	324	229	102	124	129	141	126	127	108	139	100	75	97	105
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
Ireland	4,001									70	75	32	35	54	42
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
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
Sweden	1,073	844	438	353	337	148	163	441	390	352	305	442	388	432	425
Switzerland	1,081	468	455	533	446	1,508	631	568	446	309	291	332	348	301	267
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
Chile	642	2,879	2,646	748	2,453	2,683	2,732	2,653	2,831	2,521	2,469	2,694	2,799	2,433	2,680
Mexico	4,400	12,630	13,851	13,625	12,990	14,020	14,234	14,889	16,707	16,103	15,850	14,869	14,636	13,180	15,044
Israel	2,856	5,203	5,157	5,856	5,526	5,473	4,984	5,148	5,623	5,119	5,377	5,857	6,370	6,481	8,017
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
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

Patent applications among nonresidents (number)

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