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World Patent Report: A Statistical Review[PDF version] [Data] IMPORTANT NOTEPlease find the latest available publications on patent statistics here. FOREWORDIntellectual property rights have been high on the policy agenda in recent years. Understanding the evolution and use of the patent system is critical to understanding policy debates, including the role of intellectual property in economic growth and development, and the relationship between IP policy and key public policy concerns, such as health and the environment, and for developing initiatives to improve the efficiency of the patent system itself. This report provides readers with statistical indicators that shed light on issues such as the functioning of the patent system and its use by both developed and developing countries. The statistical information provided in this report allows users to analyze and monitor the latest trends in patent activity based on objective and detailed information. The World Patent Report: A Statistical Review is an annual publication and the 2. There is a continuing effort at WIPO to improve statistical information on patent activity covering as many countries as possible across the world and to develop and provide new indicators that are relevant to current policy issues.
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The report contains a wide range of indicators, some of which are published for the first time in the 2. Patent filings and grants by offices and countries of origin with the aim of providing an overview of the level of patent activity across the world. Patent statistics by field of technology which highlight and identify key / emerging technologies. Use of utility models as an alternative to patents for protecting intellectual property rights.
International filings through the Patent Cooperation Treaty, indicating the level of internationalization of technologies. Use of the patent system in emerging countries. Processing of patent applications, including pendency volume and time, which highlight the challenges faced by patent offices with rapidly increasing numbers of patent filings. Opposition and invalidation. Cost of patenting.
All statistics included in this report and additional data (i. WIPO’s statistics website: www. This report was prepared by Mosahid Khan, Ryan Lamb, Bruno Le Feuvre, William Meredith, Catherine Calais Regnier, Alex Riechel, and Hao Zhou of the Patent Information and IP Statistics Service of the World Intellectual Property Organization. We would like to thank the many National and Regional Intellectual Property Offices that shared their statistics with WIPO, without the contribution of which this report would not have been possible. Francis GURRYDeputy Director General.
TABLE OF CONTENTSHIGHLIGHTSWorldwide patent activity increased by 4. China, the Republic of Korea and the United States of America. The total number of applications filed across the world in 2. Between 2. 00. 5 and 2. China, the Republic of Korea and the United States of America increased by 3. The United States Patent and Trademark Office was the largest recipient of patent filings, for the first time since 1.
There was a small decrease in the number of patents filed at the Japan Patent Office in 2. The patent offices of China (2. Republic of Korea (1. European Patent Office (1. Patent applicants tend to come from a relatively small number of countries of origin.
For example, applicants from Japan, the United States of America, the Republic of Korea, Germany and China accounted for 7. Chinese residents increased their share of total worldwide patent filings from 1. Although the number of patent applications filed across the world has increased at a steady pace, the rate of increase is less than the rate of increase observed for other economic indicators such as GDP and trade.
In 2. 00. 6, approximately 7. Similar to patent filings, patent grants are concentrated in a small number of countries. Applicants from Japan, the United States of America, the Republic of Korea and Germany received 7. Between 2. 00. 0 and 2. China and the Republic of Korea grew by 2.
There has been an increase in the level of patenting activity in emerging countries. The patent offices of India, Brazil and Mexico all received a large number of filings in 2. However, for the majority of the reported emerging countries, non- resident applicants accounted for the largest share of total filings in these countries. There has also been an increase in the use of the PCT System by emerging countries for international filings. Increasing internationalization of the patent system. There has been a significant increase in the level of internationalization of patent activity as reflected by non- resident patent filings and international filings through the PCT System. The non- resident filings share of total patent filings increased from 3.
Non- resident patent filings originate from a relatively small number of countries, led by the United States of America (2. Japan (2. 1. 7%) and Germany (1.
The 8 largest countries of origin increased their share of worldwide non- resident patent filings from 6. Applicants from emerging economies, including China, file relatively few patent applications outside their home countries. Many inventions result in filings in multiple offices.
Approximately 2. 4% of all patent families are filed in 2 or more offices. The level of internationalization varies across countries/economies. The share of non- resident patent filings is very high in the patent offices of Hong Kong (SAR), China, Israel, Mexico and Singapore – where more than 9. In addition, between 2. The number of international patent filings filed through the PCT in 2.
Emerging countries such as India, Brazil and Turkey are increasingly using the PCT System to file international applications. Approximately 6. 1 million patents were in force in 2. Approximately 6. 1 million patents were in force in 2. The largest number of patents in force were in the United States of America (1. However, the majority of patents in force were owned by applicants from Japan. Both measures of patents in force, by country of origin (ownership of the patent) and by patent office (where the patent is in force), reflect an increase in the number of patents in force in 2. Although patent rights are conferred to the applicant for up to 2.
More than half of the patents in force in 2. Increase in patent filings in computer technology, telecommunications and electrical machinery technologies, but a decrease in biotechnology.
In 2. 00. 5, a large number of patent filings were filed across the world in computer technology (1. Between 2. 00. 1 and 2. There was a modest increase in pharmaceuticals filings (1.
The recent pressures on energy resources have created an increase in patenting activity related to energy technologies. Examples can be seen in patent filings related to solar (thermal and photo) energy, fuel cells and wind energy. Patent filings in the fields of solar energy and fuel cells mainly originated from Japan. Patent applications in the field of wind energy were evenly distributed, with Germany and Japan being the top two countries of origin for this technology.
Large volume of pending applications at some patent offices. There has been an increase in the number of pending patent applications at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
By 2. 00. 6, the number of patent applications awaiting examination at the USPTO was 1,0. There has also been an increase in the application processing time, as reflected by the increase in the number of months for first office action and total pendency time. Between 2. 00. 4 and 2. Japanese Patent Office (JPO). In 2. 00. 6, there were around 8.
JPO. However, the increase at the JPO was mostly due to the shortening of the time limit for request for examination, from 7 years to 3 years, which has created an increased examination workload for a period of several years. Since 2. 00. 5, the volume of pending applications at the JPO has stabilized and it is expected to decrease in the near future. The number of pending applications at other large patent offices, such as Germany (2. European Patent Office (2. Canada (2. 05,7. 76), is relatively small (compared to the USPTO and the JPO) and has been stable over time.
Increased opposition and invalidation requests. In most of the reported offices, the numbers of opposition or invalidation requests are loosely correlated with the number of patents granted, the exception being Germany where requests have declined while the number of granted patents has increased. In general, there is an upward trend in the numbers of opposition or invalidation requests which may reflect an increasing interest in the challenging of granted patents by third parties. METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATIONA patent is an exclusive right granted by law to applicants / assignees to make use of and exploit their inventions for a limited period of time (generally 2. The patent holder has the legal right to exclude others from commercially exploiting his invention for the duration of this period.
In return for exclusive rights, the applicant is obliged to disclose the invention to the public in a manner that enables others, skilled in the art, to replicate the invention. The patent system is designed to balance the interests of applicants / assignees (exclusive rights) and the interests of society (disclosure of invention). Patent statistics as an indicator of inventive activity. It is widely accepted that patent statistics are a reliable (although not perfect) indicator of innovative activity. Therefore, it has become standard practice to use patent statistics for monitoring innovative activities and the development of new technologies.
However, when using patent statistics as an indicator of inventive activity, the following points should be taken into consideration: Not all inventions are patented. There are other alternatives such as trade secrecy or technical know- how available to inventors for protecting their inventions.