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
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
Bulgaria	331	709	52	17	21	14	15	16	11	11	23	18	7	7	6
Cyprus	43		44	4	8	8	1		1	1	4		1	1	2
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
Monaco	56	7	5	5	3	4		4	1	7	17	11	5	7	3
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
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
Malta	17	93		7	6	6	4	8	2	1	7	15	7	5	5
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
Mongolia			87	69			132	126	128	107	104	79	86	82	77
Croatia		538	649	21	21	32	23	30	17	13	11	15	16	12	11
Georgia		186	250	179	260	233	219	187	172	178	157	157	112	134	164
Kazakhstan		116	103	273	317		378	271	232	231	173	193		97
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
Russian Federation		8,960	8,609	13,778	14,919	15,510	16,149	16,236	16,248	14,792	14,106	13,031	12,174	11,225	11,408
Slovenia		124	29	11	11							23		12	17
Armenia		8	2	6	19	4	6	2	2	1	3	4	4	7	8
Czechia		4,384	244	114	97	150	97	62	72	47	66	54	48	56	59
Azerbaijan			6	17	12					19	22	16	20	18	16
Belarus		204	296	174	146	190	145	105	148	66	90	94	95	77	110
Estonia		791	15	13	15	5	17	6	6	1	4	6	1	2	1
North Macedonia		53	15	1	3	3	4
Moldova		10	11	11	11	22	29	72	60	64	37	21	15	11	12
Kyrgyz Republic		4		6	5	1	3	7	4	5	9		1	1	4
Slovak Republic		1,804	95	48	33	35	26	23	28	15	23	14	28	15	13
Tajikistan		7	6	3	1	3	2		1				1	8
Uzbekistan		213	180	262	274	253	258	223	219	202	196	180	169	232	252
Ukraine		1,604	2,054	2,756	2,604	2,464	2,556	2,356	2,226	1,862	1,764	1,861	1,755	1,822	2,091
Albania			386		8		4	3	5	5	8	3	1		1
Bosnia and Herzegovina		242	306	9	12	14	22	2		6	12	12	14	5	8
Serbia			609	39	49	32	20	10	13	21	13	11	9	8	18
Montenegro				136	83	41
Andorra										3	6	10	12	5	8
San Marino							155	191	296	467	604	681	741	709	722

Patent applications among nonresidents (number)

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