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DEFINITION: Patent applications, residents. Patent applications are worldwide patent applications filed through the Patent Cooperation Treaty procedure or with a national patent office for exclusive rights for an invention--a product or process that provides a new way of doing something or offers a new technical solution to a problem. A patent provides protection for the invention to the owner of the patent for a limited period, generally 20 years.
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# COUNTRY AMOUNT DATE GRAPH HISTORY
1 China 415,829 2011
2 United States 247,750 2011
3 Germany 46,986 2011
4 Russia 26,495 2011
5 United Kingdom 15,343 2011
6 North Korea 8,018 2010
7 Canada 4,754 2011
8 Poland 3,879 2011
9 Ukraine 2,649 2011
10 Austria 2,154 2011
11 Sweden 2,004 2011
12 Belarus 1,725 2011
13 Finland 1,650 2011
14 Switzerland 1,597 2011
15 Denmark 1,574 2011
16 Romania 1,424 2011
17 Kazakhstan 1,415 2011
18 Norway 1,122 2011
19 Czech Republic 783 2011
20 Hungary 662 2011
21 Belgium 636 2011
22 Ireland 494 2011
23 Slovenia 442 2010
24 Chile 339 2011
25 Slovakia 224 2011
26 Latvia 173 2011
27 Georgia 138 2011
28 Kyrgyzstan 134 2010
29 Armenia 121 2011
30 Mongolia 110 2010
31 Lithuania 93 2011
32 Luxembourg 85 2011
33 Estonia 62 2011
34 Iceland 50 2011
35 Bosnia and Herzegovina 43 2011
36 Republic of Macedonia 37 2011
37 Tajikistan 4 2011
38 Nepal 3 1995

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