Top Ten Countries For Patent Filing

27 May 2020, 00:14 by David Manners

Thanks to the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) for this one – the top ten applicant countries for patents last year:

China 58,990

USA 57,840

Japan 52,660

Germany 19,353

Korea 19,085

France 7,934

UK 5,786

Switzerland 4,610

Sweden 4,185

Netherlands 4,011.