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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.Source:
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Country
Patent applications, nonresidentsPatent applications, nonresidentsYear
1
United States
313,052
2017
2
China
135,885
2017
3
Japan
58,189
2017
4
South Korea
45,691
2017
5
India
31,621
2017
6
Canada
30,969
2017
7
Australia
26,403
2017
8
Brazil
20,178
2017
9
Germany
19,927
2017
10
Mexico
15,850
2017
11
Russia
14,106
2017
12
Hong Kong
12,975
2017
13
Singapore
9,321
2017
14
United Kingdom
8,771
2017
15
Indonesia
7,032
2017
16
Thailand
6,886
2017
17
South Africa
6,816
2017
18
Malaysia
5,906
2017
19
Israel
5,377
2017
20
New Zealand
5,146
2017
21
Vietnam
4,790
2017
22
Philippines
3,072
2017
23
Argentina
3,050
2017
24
Chile
2,469
2017
25
Saudi Arabia
2,282
2017
26
Morocco
2,026
2017
27
France
1,832
2017
28
Colombia
1,777
2017
29
Ukraine
1,764
2017
30
United Arab Emirates
1,748
2017
31
Egypt
1,231
2016
32
Peru
1,119
2017
33
Italy
1,031
2017
34
Iran
995
2017
35
Norway
908
2017
36
Nigeria
869
2013
37
Algeria
594
2017
38
Qatar
574
2017
39
Luxembourg
512
2017
40
Pakistan
505
2017
41
Costa Rica
504
2017
42
Uruguay
500
2017
43
San Marino
454
2016
44
Rwanda
453
2017
45
Ecuador
401
2017
46
Oman
387
2017
47
Tunisia
383
2017
48
Turkey
380
2017
49
Panama
376
2017
50
Netherlands
365
2017
51
Paraguay
347
2010
52
Venezuela
338
2017
53
Sweden
305
2017
54
Switzerland
291
2017
55
Denmark
282
2017
56
Bolivia
277
2017
57
Guatemala
275
2017
58
Dominican Republic
269
2017
59
Sri Lanka
266
2017
60
Bangladesh
241
2017
61
Bahrain
237
2017
62
Austria
232
2017
63
Belgium
216
2017
64
Uzbekistan
196
2017
65
Lebanon
194
2015
66
Honduras
189
2017
67
El Salvador
178
2017
68
Spain
176
2017
69
Jordan
174
2017
70
Kazakhstan
173
2017
71
Trinidad and Tobago
171
2017
72
Georgia
157
2017
73
Cuba
145
2017
74
Nicaragua
145
2014
75
Finland
139
2017
76
Poland
117
2017
77
Mongolia
104
2017
78
Iraq
101
2017
79
Brunei
99
2017
80
Greece
91
2017
81
Belarus
90
2017
82
Democratic Republic Of Congo
86
1984
83
Republic of Ireland
86
2017
84
Romania
80
2017
85
Macao
67
2017
86
Czech Republic
66
2017
87
Cambodia
65
2015
88
Jamaica
57
2017
89
The Bahamas
48
2017
90
Papua New Guinea
46
2015
91
Lithuania
46
2017
92
Kenya
43
2017
93
Nepal
43
2017
94
Madagascar
42
2017
95
Montenegro
41
2012
96
Barbados
41
2016
97
Belize
37
2016
98
Moldova
37
2017
99
Portugal
36
2017
100
Hungary
36
2017
101
Republic of the Congo
27
1996
102
North Korea
27
2012
103
Ethiopia
25
2007
104
Mozambique
25
2016
105
Bulgaria
23
2017
106
Guyana
23
2017
107
Slovakia
23
2017
108
Libya
23
1996
109
Liberia
21
1993
110
Azerbaijan
19
2016
111
Haiti
19
2014
112
Mauritius
18
2017
113
Monaco
17
2017
114
Grenada
17
2016
115
Fiji
17
1986
116
Syria
16
2017
117
Namibia
15
2017
118
Serbia
13
2017
119
Yemen
13
2017
120
Bosnia and Herzegovina
12
2017
121
Sudan
12
2017
122
Ghana
11
2017
123
Croatia
11
2017
124
Slovenia
11
2011
125
Zambia
10
2017
126
Saint Kitts And Nevis
9
2017
127
Kyrgyzstan
9
2017
128
Iceland
8
2017
129
Antigua and Barbuda
8
2017
130
Saint Lucia
7
2001
131
Mali
7
1981
132
Somalia
7
1985
133
Latvia
7
2017
134
Andorra
6
2017
135
Seychelles
6
1996
136
Albania
5
2015
137
Turkmenistan
5
1999
138
Sierra Leone
5
1995
139
Zimbabwe
5
2016
140
Cyprus
4
2017
141
Burundi
4
1996
142
Botswana
4
2017
143
Republic of Macedonia
4
2013
144
Gambia
4
2017
145
Estonia
4
2017
146
Djibouti
4
2014
147
Samoa
3
2015
148
Uganda
3
2014
149
São Tomé and Príncipe
3
2014
150
Bhutan
3
2017
151
Armenia
3
2017
152
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
3
2017
153
Solomon Islands
2
1989
154
Lesotho
2
1995
155
Swaziland
2
2015
156
Kiribati
2
1999
157
Dominica
2
1995
158
Angola
2
1992
159
Tanzania
1
2015
160
Malawi
1
2016
161
Tajikistan
1
2015
162
Malta
1
2016
163
Ivory Coast
1
2012
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