Eastern Europe Compared by Economy > Innovation > Patent applications, nonresidents per million
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DEFINITION:
Patent applications, nonresidents. 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 | Montenegro | 133.73 | 2011 | ||
2 | Russia | 104.36 | 2011 | ||
3 | Georgia | 57.99 | 2011 | ||
4 | Ukraine | 56.97 | 2011 | ||
5 | Belarus | 15.41 | 2011 | ||
6 | Czech Republic | 9.24 | 2011 | ||
7 | Serbia | 6.75 | 2011 | ||
8 | Armenia | 6.41 | 2011 | ||
9 | Poland | 6.33 | 2011 | ||
10 | Slovakia | 6.11 | 2011 | ||
11 | Slovenia | 5.37 | 2010 | ||
12 | Croatia | 4.91 | 2011 | ||
13 | Hungary | 3.61 | 2011 | ||
14 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 3.13 | 2011 | ||
15 | Moldova | 3.09 | 2011 | ||
16 | Bulgaria | 2.86 | 2011 | ||
17 | Albania | 2.54 | 2011 | ||
18 | Romania | 1.82 | 2011 | ||
19 | Azerbaijan | 1.31 | 2011 |