World Intellectual Property Indicators (WIPI) is an annual statistical report published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). [1] The publication provides an overview of the activity in the areas of patents, utility models, trademarks, industrial designs, microorganisms, plant variety protection, geographical indications and the creative economy.
The WIPI draws on intellectual property (IP) statistics collected from the 193 member States of WIPO. It provides the latest trends for IP activity at world, geographical region, country and IP office levels. WIPO has published the report annually since 2009. [2]
The IP statistics data presented in the WIPI are taken from the WIPO Statistics Database and based primarily on data collected from national and regional IP offices, other competent authorities and publishers’ associations from around the world, through annual surveys consisting of multiple questionnaires. Data are also compiled by WIPO in processing international applications through the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), the Madrid System for trademark protection and the Hague System for industrial design protection. [3]
Patent family and technology data are extracted from the WIPO Statistics Database and from the PATSTAT database of the European Patent Office (EPO). [4] Gross domestic product, income group classification and population data are from the World Development Indicators database of the World Bank. Geographical regions are those defined by the United Nations. [3]
The WIPI is available on WIPO website. Its underlying data can be extracted from the IP Statistics Data Center, which is WIPO’s online statistical database. [1] [2] [5]
The IP Facts and Figures report, drawn from the WIPI, serves as a quick reference guide for the most frequently used measure of IP activity. [6] An online statistical country profiles also provides a set of IP statistics at country level. [7]
More comprehensive data and analysis on the WIPO administrated Systems are available in a series of three publications: PCT Yearly Review, Madrid Yearly Review and Hague Yearly Review. [8] [9] [10]
Applications received by offices from resident and non-resident applicants are referred to as office data, whereas applications filed by applicants at their national or regional office (resident applications) or at a foreign office (applications filed abroad) are referred to as origin data. [3] [11] For statistical purposes, WIPO defines the origin of an IP application to be the country or territory of residence of the first named applicant in the application. [3] [11]
Due to the nature of regional offices, the WIPI uses an equivalent application concept for reporting data by origin. [3] [11] Applications at regional offices are equivalent to multiple applications, one in each of the member states of those offices. For the EPO and the African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO), the equivalent application is counted as one application abroad, if the applicant does not reside in a member state, or as one resident application and one application abroad, if the applicant resides in a member state. [3]
The patent, trademark and industrial design data presented in this table come from the WIPI and show the application filing activity trend by country of origin and by year of filing.
Trademark application data refer to class counts – that is, the number of classes specified in applications. This provides the best comparison of international trademark filing activity across origins, because some jurisdictions may allow multiple classes of goods and services to be specified in a single application, whereas others require a separate application for each class. For the same reason, industrial design data refer to design counts, that is, the number of designs contained in applications. [2] [11]
Code | Country / Region | Patent applications in 2021 | Patent applications in 2022 | Trademarks applications in 2021 | Trademarks applications in 2022 | Industrial design applications in 2021 | Industrial design applications in 2022 |
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AD | Andorra | 27 | 19 | 7,588 | 8,885 | 0 | 0 |
AE | United Arab Emirates | 655 | 843 | 45,891 | 60,177 | 1,265 | 1,326 |
AG | Antigua and Barbuda | 408 | 153 | 1,940 | 1,555 | 2 | 0 |
AL | Albania | 39 | 35 | 2,766 | 1,655 | 58 | 778 |
AM | Armenia | 106 | 71 | 5,651 | 8,278 | 81 | 129 |
AO | Angola | 0 | 82 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 46 |
AR | Argentina | 717 | 763 | 82,468 | 83,214 | 1,624 | 1,583 |
AT | Austria | 13,472 | 13,655 | 412,197 | 361,857 | 82,185 | 58,736 |
AU | Australia | 12,825 | 11,707 | 251,488 | 224,153 | 18,061 | 15,867 |
AZ | Azerbaijan | 338 | 531 | 6,165 | 8,602 | 81 | 96 |
BA | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 64 | 73 | 1,879 | 2,035 | 671 | 172 |
BB | Barbados | 767 | 0 | 17,060 | 2,646 | 0 | 0 |
BD | Bangladesh | 91 | 90 | 11,010 | 9,439 | 1,393 | 1,225 |
BE | Belgium | 13,966 | 14,290 | 281,983 | 250,062 | 35,115 | 34,668 |
BF | Burkina Faso | 85 | 104 | 6,148 | 3,270 | 206 | 136 |
BG | Bulgaria | 466 | 548 | 105,124 | 131,517 | 13,014 | 28,711 |
BH | Bahrain | 17 | 30 | 1,326 | 1,945 | 15 | 35 |
BJ | Benin | 171 | 71 | 3,596 | 2,677 | 85 | 51 |
BN | Brunei | 5 | 1 | 737 | 227 | 0 | 0 |
BO | Bolivia | 6 | 14 | 4,935 | 4,910 | 23 | 31 |
BR | Brazil | 6,909 | 6,984 | 370,158 | 380,501 | 7,920 | 8,097 |
BT | Bhutan | 0 | 1 | 157 | 93 | 3 | 0 |
BW | Botswana | 4 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 5 |
BY | Belarus | 1,118 | 980 | 12,272 | 7,985 | 462 | 670 |
BZ | Belize | 21 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 59 | 0 |
CA | Canada | 26,525 | 25,562 | 235,899 | 202,119 | 17,985 | 15,352 |
CF | Central African Republic | 17 | 0 | 70 | 97 | 0 | 17 |
CG | Republic of the Congo | 71 | 52 | 707 | 421 | 17 | 0 |
CH | Switzerland | 48,336 | 51,445 | 567,109 | 518,055 | 117,813 | 116,156 |
CI | Ivory Coast | 697 | 562 | 19,631 | 14,692 | 1,360 | 3,074 |
CL | Chile | 930 | 823 | 66,205 | 53,486 | 189 | 92 |
CM | Cameroon | 1,074 | 803 | 13,245 | 11,159 | 631 | 426 |
CN | China | 1,538,604 | 1,586,339 | 11,170,624 | 8,561,984 | 1,512,861 | 1,408,921 |
CO | Colombia | 692 | 1,317 | 42,743 | 61,046 | 636 | 783 |
CR | Costa Rica | 130 | 135 | 10,914 | 11,990 | 13 | 4 |
CU | Cuba | 112 | 0 | 2,521 | 4,161 | 14 | 0 |
CV | Cape Verde | 1 | 2 | 147 | 110 | 0 | 0 |
CW | Curaçao | 0 | 0 | 2,403 | 4,315 | 0 | 0 |
CY | Cyprus | 417 | 295 | 91,783 | 81,971 | 9,184 | 4,604 |
CZ | Czech Republic | 1,922 | 1,887 | 199,534 | 173,176 | 24,605 | 25,309 |
DE | Germany | 165,826 | 157,652 | 2,947,580 | 2,552,542 | 540,700 | 489,507 |
DJ | Djibouti | 3 | 1 | 41 | 52 | 0 | 9 |
DK | Denmark | 14,100 | 14,525 | 195,921 | 171,314 | 58,229 | 44,638 |
DM | Dominica | 5 | 1 | 93 | 19 | 0 | 0 |
DO | Dominican Republic | 46 | 51 | 11,094 | 12,135 | 44 | 64 |
DZ | Algeria | 281 | 483 | 11,857 | 12,252 | 900 | 855 |
EC | Ecuador | 51 | 45 | 15,497 | 15,367 | 107 | 89 |
EE | Estonia | 350 | 273 | 74,596 | 70,390 | 5,773 | 4,845 |
EG | Egypt | 997 | 866 | 46,684 | 43,102 | 2,276 | 2,069 |
ES | Spain | 10,880 | 10,518 | 794,344 | 789,031 | 101,588 | 118,365 |
ET | Ethiopia | 0 | 39 | 1,443 | 1,924 | 0 | 60 |
FI | Finland | 12,826 | 12,972 | 174,836 | 152,511 | 25,455 | 19,972 |
FR | France | 66,137 | 66,446 | 1,251,047 | 1,194,182 | 227,890 | 217,619 |
GA | Gabon | 359 | 103 | 1,228 | 1,299 | 204 | 85 |
GB | United Kingdom | 53,650 | 54,620 | 1,198,871 | 1,093,675 | 135,245 | 131,371 |
GD | Grenada | 1 | 0 | 26 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
GE | Georgia | 132 | 97 | 4,618 | 3,750 | 113 | 247 |
GH | Ghana | 0 | 11 | 0 | 1,097 | 0 | 673 |
GM | Gambia | 0 | 0 | 121 | 405 | 0 | 0 |
GN | Guinea | 52 | 51 | 5,045 | 4,175 | 1,003 | 1,020 |
GQ | Equatorial Guinea | 0 | 0 | 187 | 459 | 1 | 0 |
GR | Greece | 1,387 | 1,238 | 0 | 0 | 11,758 | 11,803 |
GT | Guatemala | 15 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 83 | 19 |
GW | Guinea-Bissau | 0 | 0 | 426 | 391 | 51 | 85 |
GY | Guyana | 40 | 0 | 0 | 117 | 1 | 0 |
HK | Hong Kong | 3,261 | 2,459 | 139,559 | 112,271 | 27,295 | 25,074 |
HN | Honduras | 2 | 2 | 2,950 | 3,062 | 0 | 1 |
HR | Croatia | 304 | 290 | 30,779 | 36,255 | 5,867 | 5,281 |
HU | Hungary | 1,466 | 1,145 | 69,947 | 63,856 | 5,132 | 6,274 |
ID | Indonesia | 1,445 | 1,607 | 97,170 | 113,162 | 3,123 | 3,708 |
IE | Ireland | 7,061 | 7,464 | 0 | 0 | 15,625 | 9,799 |
IL | Israel | 17,341 | 17,327 | 44,060 | 48,990 | 10,163 | 10,107 |
IN | India | 43,163 | 56,396 | 477,121 | 499,674 | 19,774 | 22,409 |
IQ | Iraq | 0 | 0 | 2,756 | 1,193 | 0 | 0 |
IR | Iran | 10,350 | 8,391 | 511,868 | 357,669 | 13,937 | 8,170 |
IS | Iceland | 371 | 313 | 6,133 | 5,747 | 38 | 0 |
IT | Italy | 34,206 | 32,021 | 1,238,081 | 1,178,542 | 350,437 | 369,347 |
JM | Jamaica | 23 | 13 | 2,936 | 0 | 94 | 154 |
JO | Jordan | 53 | 64 | 6,321 | 6,366 | 322 | 251 |
JP | Japan | 412,885 | 406,374 | 555,273 | 549,015 | 94,374 | 91,683 |
KE | Kenya | 199 | 396 | 0 | 5,475 | 126 | 99 |
KG | Kyrgyzstan | 120 | 132 | 845 | 981 | 30 | 20 |
KH | Cambodia | 0 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
KM | Comoros | 0 | 0 | 138 | 36 | 0 | 0 |
KP | North Korea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5,234 | 0 | 0 |
KR | South Korea | 267,527 | 272,675 | 471,725 | 449,639 | 116,693 | 103,174 |
KW | Kuwait | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7,801 | 114 | 17 |
KZ | Kazakhstan | 0 | 1,297 | 17,109 | 18,309 | 283 | 231 |
LA | Laos | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
LI | Liechtenstein | 1,482 | 1,480 | 15,328 | 12,723 | 3,215 | 2,853 |
LK | Sri Lanka | 329 | 260 | 7,725 | 6,980 | 227 | 361 |
LT | Lithuania | 477 | 642 | 62,935 | 61,635 | 5,327 | 5,055 |
LU | Luxembourg | 2,725 | 2,580 | 98,061 | 88,768 | 8,992 | 6,304 |
LV | Latvia | 281 | 246 | 27,774 | 26,106 | 2,504 | 2,481 |
MA | Morocco | 399 | 363 | 106,422 | 52,405 | 3,924 | 5,082 |
MC | Monaco | 137 | 154 | 15,384 | 15,953 | 431 | 229 |
MD | Moldova | 75 | 54 | 6,253 | 5,257 | 749 | 528 |
ME | Montenegro | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
MG | Madagascar | 6 | 9 | 3,275 | 3,441 | 328 | 338 |
MK | North Macedonia | 73 | 53 | 4,585 | 8,860 | 172 | 265 |
ML | Mali | 194 | 55 | 5,760 | 3,514 | 206 | 121 |
MN | Mongolia | 113 | 138 | 19,487 | 10,415 | 1,391 | 1,088 |
MO | Macau | 163 | 27 | 3,660 | 3,108 | 245 | 14 |
MR | Mauritania | 36 | 85 | 2,466 | 982 | 0 | 34 |
MT | Malta | 407 | 441 | 78,933 | 67,790 | 13,822 | 4,802 |
MU | Mauritius | 165 | 401 | 8,607 | 5,798 | 63 | 115 |
MX | Mexico | 1,994 | 1,815 | 165,547 | 162,780 | 1,756 | 1,439 |
MY | Malaysia | 1,863 | 1,760 | 33,696 | 27,650 | 721 | 990 |
MZ | Mozambique | 30 | 25 | 1,606 | 788 | 35 | 52 |
NA | Namibia | 0 | 39 | 0 | 488 | 0 | 38 |
NE | Niger | 68 | 87 | 815 | 809 | 0 | 0 |
NL | Netherlands | 32,779 | 32,738 | 609,122 | 582,247 | 97,770 | 91,971 |
NO | Norway | 5,841 | 5,974 | 94,151 | 78,970 | 8,504 | 6,936 |
NZ | New Zealand | 2,682 | 2,588 | 55,614 | 48,773 | 5,992 | 6,666 |
OM | Oman | 100 | 88 | 6,819 | 8,074 | 17 | 108 |
PA | Panama | 70 | 0 | 12,385 | 0 | 197 | 0 |
PE | Peru | 160 | 234 | 32,316 | 31,278 | 98 | 117 |
PG | Papua New Guinea | 4 | 4 | 329 | 112 | 0 | 0 |
PH | Philippines | 695 | 674 | 37,610 | 38,417 | 720 | 685 |
PK | Pakistan | 491 | 416 | 44,595 | 39,967 | 485 | 467 |
PL | Poland | 5,916 | 6,073 | 500,481 | 477,735 | 158,341 | 155,846 |
PT | Portugal | 1,986 | 2,035 | 168,643 | 146,295 | 24,697 | 23,863 |
PY | Paraguay | 14 | 11 | 17,189 | 14,791 | 9 | 1 |
QA | Qatar | 121 | 0 | 10,722 | 8,241 | 0 | 0 |
RO | Romania | 1,114 | 1,140 | 130,737 | 162,185 | 9,686 | 14,391 |
RS | Serbia | 271 | 230 | 16,773 | 14,102 | 933 | 685 |
RU | Russia | 25,904 | 25,188 | 417,882 | 447,229 | 11,773 | 10,849 |
RW | Rwanda | 16 | 9 | 721 | 777 | 10 | 5 |
SA | Saudi Arabia | 4,868 | 5,019 | 32,263 | 39,991 | 1,096 | 968 |
SC | Seychelles | 51 | 46 | 5,540 | 4,641 | 27 | 0 |
SE | Sweden | 27,802 | 28,184 | 400,733 | 352,825 | 48,800 | 48,682 |
SG | Singapore | 9,766 | 8,599 | 105,298 | 109,348 | 15,301 | 6,519 |
SI | Slovenia | 744 | 811 | 48,379 | 53,579 | 4,451 | 7,638 |
SK | Slovakia | 414 | 557 | 62,093 | 53,820 | 6,498 | 3,808 |
SL | Sierra Leone | 0 | 0 | 0 | 237 | 4 | 0 |
SM | San Marino | 58 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 486 | 605 |
SN | Senegal | 606 | 583 | 12,560 | 9,702 | 425 | 493 |
SO | Somalia | 0 | 0 | 15 | 30 | 0 | 0 |
SR | Suriname | 0 | 0 | 529 | 116 | 0 | 0 |
ST | São Tomé and Príncipe | 0 | 0 | 4 | 48 | 0 | 0 |
SV | El Salvador | 2 | 4 | 5,611 | 5,441 | 16 | 20 |
SY | Syria | 106 | 131 | 0 | 0 | 485 | 451 |
TD | Chad | 51 | 119 | 163 | 129 | 119 | 51 |
TG | Togo | 81 | 85 | 6,982 | 3,390 | 85 | 34 |
TH | Thailand | 1,548 | 1,416 | 43,547 | 39,009 | 4,764 | 4,149 |
TJ | Tajikistan | 97 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
TN | Tunisia | 0 | 225 | 0 | 5,760 | 0 | 547 |
TO | Tonga | 0 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 4 |
TR | Turkey | 10,869 | 11,114 | 503,741 | 579,543 | 78,829 | 94,792 |
TT | Trinidad and Tobago | 15 | 7 | 956 | 1,443 | 60 | 12 |
UA | Ukraine | 1,706 | 1,080 | 64,201 | 46,691 | 6,149 | 3,000 |
UG | Uganda | 20 | 16 | 2,233 | 2,186 | 91 | 56 |
US | United States | 509,962 | 515,281 | 2,169,465 | 2,009,487 | 392,258 | 366,686 |
UY | Uruguay | 0 | 0 | 9,057 | 8,386 | 0 | 0 |
UZ | Uzbekistan | 428 | 475 | 10,955 | 13,879 | 240 | 236 |
VC | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 0 | 2 | 386 | 601 | 0 | 0 |
VE | Venezuela | 0 | 29 | 0 | 8,329 | 0 | 19 |
VN | Vietnam | 1,205 | 1,057 | 86,109 | 92,118 | 2,561 | 2,755 |
VU | Vanuatu | 0 | 0 | 196 | 362 | 4 | 6 |
WS | Samoa | 17 | 0 | 865 | 880 | 0 | 9 |
YE | Yemen | 22 | 13 | 5,709 | 3,702 | 80 | 56 |
ZA | South Africa | 2,751 | 2,619 | 36,851 | 32,164 | 1,614 | 1,714 |
ZM | Zambia | 15 | 14 | 1,284 | 1,264 | 46 | 81 |
ZW | Zimbabwe | 0 | 41 | 0 | 1,341 | 19 | 38 |
The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) is an international patent law treaty, concluded in 1970. It provides a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions in each of its contracting states. A patent application filed under the PCT is called an international application, or PCT application.
Appplicants | Country | 2020 Rank | 2020 PCT applications | 2019 Rank | 2019 PCT applications |
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Huawei | China | 1 | 5464 | 1 | 4411 |
Samsung Electronics | South Korea | 2 | 3093 | 3 | 2334 |
Mitsubishi Electric | Japan | 3 | 2810 | 2 | 2661 |
LG Electronics | South Korea | 4 | 2759 | 10 | 1646 |
Qualcomm | U.S. | 5 | 2173 | 4 | 2127 |
Ericsson | Sweden | 6 | 1989 | 7 | 1698 |
BOE Technology | China | 7 | 1892 | 6 | 1864 |
Oppo | China | 8 | 1801 | 5 | 1927 |
Sony | Japan | 9 | 1793 | 13 | 1566 |
Panasonic | Japan | 10 | 1611 | 12 | 1567 |
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Applicant | Rank 2020 | Madrid applications in 2020 | Rank 2019 | Madrid applications in 2019 |
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Novartis | 1 | 233 | 3 | 129 |
Huawei | 2 | 197 | 2 | 164 |
Shiseido | 3 | 130 | 9 | 70 |
Adp Gauselmann | 4 | 123 | 19 | 39 |
L'Oreal | 5 | 115 | 1 | 193 |
Nintendo | 6 | 90 | 26 | 32 |
Euro Games Technology | 7 | 84 | 14 | 48 |
Apple | 8 | 80 | 4 | 104 |
Syngenta | 9 | 78 | 27 | 30 |
RIGO Trading SA | 10 | 70 | 5 | 102 |
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Applicant | Rank 2020 | Hague applications 2020 | Rank 2019 | Hague applications 2019 |
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LG Electronics | 1 | 446 | 1 | 449 |
Xiaomi | 2 | 216 | 3 | 111 |
Samsung | 3 | 170 | 2 | 166 |
Hyundai | 4 | 141 | 7 | 57 |
Philips | 5 | 95 | 4 | 85 |
Volkswagen | 6 | 84 | 5 | 73 |
Hermès | 7 | 68 | 15 | 27 |
Daimler | 8 | 65 | 10 | 42 |
Proctor & Gamble | 9 | 57 | 6 | 65 |
Kärcher | 10 | 47 | 12 | 35 |
Since Taiwan (ROC) is not a member of the United Nations, the number of patents filed in Taiwan is not reported. The number of patent applications filed with the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) in 2018 was 73,431, [26] which would place it in 6th place worldwide for that year, or 2nd place per capita. In 2014, Bloomberg ranked Taiwan #1 in Patent Activity, using UN data. [27] [28] The last WIPO Indicators report to mention the name Taiwan was in 2017, noting the large number of patents by Foxconn. [29] [30] [31] [32]
China has been criticized for its efforts in the UN to reduce the visibility of Taiwan, [33] [34] including via WIPO; in 2020 Beijing reportedly retaliated to the failed election of a Chinese director-general of the organization by preventing the Wikimedia Foundation from gaining observer status at the WIPO, on the grounds that Wikimedia has a Taiwan subsidiary. [35] [36] [37]
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