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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. Figures expressed per million population for the same year.
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# | COUNTRY | AMOUNT | DATE | GRAPH | HISTORY |
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1 | United States | 795.12 | 2011 | ||
2 | Germany | 574.42 | 2011 | ||
3 | North Korea | 327.26 | 2010 | ||
4 | China | 309.37 | 2011 | ||
5 | Finland | 306.22 | 2011 | ||
6 | Denmark | 282.56 | 2011 | ||
7 | Austria | 255.71 | 2011 | ||
8 | United Kingdom | 244.5 | 2011 | ||
9 | Norway | 226.53 | 2011 | ||
10 | Slovenia | 215.76 | 2010 | ||
11 | Sweden | 212.08 | 2011 | ||
12 | Switzerland | 201.84 | 2011 | ||
13 | Russia | 185.33 | 2011 | ||
14 | Belarus | 182.1 | 2011 | ||
15 | Luxembourg | 163.98 | 2011 | ||
16 | Iceland | 156.73 | 2011 | ||
17 | Canada | 137.86 | 2011 | ||
18 | Ireland | 107.94 | 2011 | ||
19 | Poland | 100.66 | 2011 | ||
20 | Kazakhstan | 85.45 | 2011 | ||
21 | Latvia | 84.05 | 2011 | ||
22 | Czech Republic | 74.6 | 2011 | ||
23 | Romania | 66.59 | 2011 | ||
24 | Hungary | 66.39 | 2011 | ||
25 | Ukraine | 57.96 | 2011 | ||
26 | Belgium | 57.57 | 2011 | ||
27 | Estonia | 46.27 | 2011 | ||
28 | Slovakia | 41.49 | 2011 | ||
29 | Armenia | 40.82 | 2011 | ||
30 | Mongolia | 40.55 | 2010 | ||
31 | Georgia | 30.78 | 2011 | ||
32 | Lithuania | 30.69 | 2011 | ||
33 | Kyrgyzstan | 24.6 | 2010 | ||
34 | Chile | 19.59 | 2011 | ||
35 | Republic of Macedonia | 17.59 | 2011 | ||
36 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 11.2 | 2011 | ||
37 | Tajikistan | 0.512 | 2011 | ||
38 | Nepal | 0.146 | 1995 |