World Intellectual Property Indicators

WIPO's World Intellectual Property Indicators is an annual report providing a wide range of indicators covering the areas of intellectual property. It draws on data from national and regional IP offices, WIPO, the World Bank and UNESCO.^[1]

Patents

Patent applications for the top 10 offices, 2014^[2]

Rank	Country	Patent applications
1	China	928,177
2	United States	578,802
3	Japan	325,989
4	South Korea	210,292
5	European Patent Office	152,662
6	Germany	65,965
7	India	42,854
8	Russia	40,308
9	Canada	35,481
10	Brazil	30,342

Patent grants for the top 10 offices, 2014^[3]

Rank	Country	Patent grants
1	United States	300,678
2	China	233,228
3	Japan	227,142
4	South Korea	129,786
5	European Patent Office	64,608
6	Russia	33,950
7	Canada	23,749
8	Australia	19,304
9	Germany	15,030
10	France	11,889

Patent applications per GDP for the top 10 origins, 2012

Rank	Country	Patent applications per GDP
1	South Korea	10,584
2	Japan	7,160
3	China	4,980
4	Germany	2,596
5	Switzerland	2,575
6	France	2,090
7	United States	1,988
8	Sweden	1,722
9	Denmark	1,667
10	Luxembourg	1,414

Patent applications per million population for the top 10 origins, 2012

Rank	Country	Patent applications per million population
1	South Korea	2,962
2	Japan	2,250
3	Switzerland	1,013
4	Germany	902
5	United States	856
6	Finland	665
7	Denmark	539
8	Austria	489
9	Netherlands	444
10	China	396

Industrial designs

Application design counts for the top 10 offices, 2012

Rank	Country	Application design count
1	China	657,582
2	European Union's OHIM	97,681
3	South Korea	65,469
4	Germany	55,599
5	Turkey	46,330
6	United States	32,799
7	Japan	32,391
8	Italy	30,940
9	Spain	17,872
10	France	15,862

Application design counts for the top 10 origins, 2012

Rank	Country	Application design count
1	China	648,987
2	Germany	76,369
3	South Korea	68,737
4	United States	45,254
5	Italy	45,099
6	Japan	44,203
7	Turkey	41,240
8	France	31,658
9	Switzerland	26,124
10	Spain	22,760

Application design counts per million population for the top 10 origins, 2012

Rank	Country	Application design count per million population
1	South Korea	1,217
2	Germany	797
3	Turkey	540
4	Switzerland	507
5	China	476
6	Spain	470
7	Austria	447
8	France	348
9	Denmark	333
10	Portugal	295

Industrial design registrations in force for the top 10 offices, 2012

Rank	Country	Registrations in force
1	China	1,132,132
2	United States	269,501
3	South Korea	260,107
4	Japan	248,822
5	European Union's OHIM	167,145
6	Turkey	72,552
7	Germany	57,089
8	Spain	46,573
9	Australia	46,194
10	United Kingdom	43,072

References

External links

World Intellectual Property Organization

[1] ttp://www.wipo.int/ipstats/en/wipi/index.html

[2] ttp://www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/wipo_pub_941_2015-part1.pdf

[3] ttp://www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/wipo_pub_941_2015-part2.pdf

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Patents

Industrial designs

See also

References

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