Patent applications

Patent applications filed in each country, by its residents and by foreigners.

Patent applications are the requests for a patent filed with a country's patent office in a year. Those by residents show how much a country's own people and companies invent; those by non-residents show how attractive its market is to foreign inventors, who patent where they expect to sell. The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) compiles the counts from patent offices, and the World Bank republishes them. China has filed the most since 2011.

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