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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 | Germany | 152.3 | 2011 | ||
2 | Montenegro | 133.73 | 2011 | ||
3 | Norway | 132.04 | 2011 | ||
4 | United Kingdom | 110.21 | 2011 | ||
5 | Russia | 104.36 | 2011 | ||
6 | Luxembourg | 82.96 | 2011 | ||
7 | Monaco | 80.51 | 2011 | ||
8 | Iceland | 65.83 | 2011 | ||
9 | Georgia | 57.99 | 2011 | ||
10 | Ukraine | 56.97 | 2011 | ||
11 | Switzerland | 56.37 | 2011 | ||
12 | Sweden | 35.66 | 2011 | ||
13 | Denmark | 35.36 | 2011 | ||
14 | Austria | 32.76 | 2011 | ||
15 | France | 32.11 | 2011 | ||
16 | Finland | 23.01 | 2011 | ||
17 | Netherlands | 18.57 | 2011 | ||
18 | Belarus | 15.41 | 2011 | ||
19 | Italy | 15.27 | 2011 | ||
20 | Ireland | 14.64 | 2011 | ||
21 | Malta | 14.4 | 2011 | ||
22 | Belgium | 11.5 | 2011 | ||
23 | Estonia | 11.19 | 2011 | ||
24 | Czech Republic | 9.24 | 2011 | ||
25 | Cyprus | 7.17 | 2011 | ||
26 | Portugal | 7.1 | 2011 | ||
27 | Serbia | 6.75 | 2011 | ||
28 | Armenia | 6.41 | 2011 | ||
29 | Poland | 6.33 | 2011 | ||
30 | Slovakia | 6.11 | 2011 | ||
31 | Slovenia | 5.37 | 2010 | ||
32 | Lithuania | 4.95 | 2011 | ||
33 | Croatia | 4.91 | 2011 | ||
34 | Latvia | 4.86 | 2011 | ||
35 | Spain | 4.24 | 2011 | ||
36 | Hungary | 3.61 | 2011 | ||
37 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 3.13 | 2011 | ||
38 | Turkey | 3.12 | 2011 | ||
39 | Moldova | 3.09 | 2011 | ||
40 | Bulgaria | 2.86 | 2011 | ||
41 | Albania | 2.54 | 2011 | ||
42 | Romania | 1.82 | 2011 | ||
43 | Republic of Macedonia | 1.43 | 2011 | ||
44 | Greece | 1.41 | 2010 | ||
45 | Azerbaijan | 1.31 | 2011 |