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U.S. PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
Electronic Information Products Division
Patent Technology Monitoring Team (PTMT)

Number of Utility Patent Applications
Filed in the United States,
By Country of Origin,
Calendar Years 1965 to Present (1)

This report was prepared by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Electronic Information Products Division, Patent Technology Monitoring Team (PTMT), and contains counts of U.S. patent applications by country of origin. These data were originally compiled by USPTO for reporting annually to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO); WIPO presents them along with data from other intellectual property offices in the annual WIPO publication, Industrial Property Statistics. Please note, however, that counts presented in this report may differ from those reported in the WIPO report because, in some years, the WIPO report omits counts of selected USPTO applications (e.g., Patent Cooperation Treaty-based applications received by USPTO).

The country of origin of an application is based on the residence of the first-named inventor. Only utility patent applications are included in the figures for 1975 to the present. Both utility and reissue patent applications are included in the figures for 1965 through 1974. A separate count of reissue applications by country of origin is not available for those years, but is estimated to be very small, compared to the number of utility applications. From 1965 to 1974, 99.67 percent of the summed utility and reissue patent applications were utility applications, based on fiscal year data (see attached table addendum).

Country names that appear in this table do not imply any expression of opinion by USPTO about the preferred name or the legal status of any country or territory, or of its authorities. Changes in the geographic boundaries or the legal status of some countries may result in multiple names for the same geographic area. For example, applications from Egypt may also be reported as United Arab Republic, and applications from Rhodesia, South may also be reported as Zimbabwe.

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Number of Utility Patent Applications Filed in the United States, By Country of Origin, Calendar Years 1965 to Present (1)
Country
of Origin (2) 		1965 (3) 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
Afghanistan                                                               1                 1  
Albania                                                   1 1 1           2             1  
Algeria   1     2   1       1 1 1 1               1 1 1                 1 1   1 2 1     3 3
Andorra                                               1           1   3   1   1 2 3 3 1 2 2
Anguilla                                     1                           2   1     1        
Antigua and Barbuda                                 1                     4 1 2 4 0 1             1 2 2
Argentina 53 40 35 45 41 52 49 54 44 50 44 52 51 61 62 56 55 35 35 40 39 56 42 32 32 56 59 59 56 75 65 78 77 119 96 137 137 95 125 103 94 117
Armenia                                                       1     1   1 1   4 2 1     3 8
Aruba                                                             3 1       1         1  
Australia 224 220 263 313 308 293 324 389 442 442 415 470 424 528 579 517 597 630 603 696 739 809 842 750 800 811 783 863 781 921 1,007 1,057 1,006 1,420 1,462 1,800 1,995 2,160 2,310 3,000 2,919 2,928
Austria 229 232 273 286 337 333 369 359 398 413 370 401 402 432 447 410 449 418 421 447 498 557 504 485 511 560 516 566 526 599 619 543 552 710 823 881 961 1,115 933 1,022 1,044 1,214
Azerbaijan                                                           3 1 1   2 1 1 2     2 3 3
Bahamas               15 11 13   12 17 13 10 7 4 9 8 4 3 3 4 10 2 7 2 6 11 8 15 9 14 20 15 18 16 20 23 21 15 13
Bahrain                             1     1                         1   1 1 2       1 1   1
Bangladesh                                                                       1   1 1   1  
Barbados                             1       2         2   1       1 1 1 2 1 1 1 4 2   10 6 3
Belarus                                                       4 8 5 7 9 3 5 10 7 10 5 8 11 4 15
Belgium 286 303 319 384 377 330 387 404 445 408 445 398 387 408 373 388 391 356 390 428 450 523 518 545 572 592 614 692 685 862 1,001 930 894 1,059 1,204 1,245 1,286 1,293 1,395 1,309 1,460 1,546
Belize                                                 1                                  
Benin                                                                                 1  
Bermuda 2     2 1 1 2 1   2 5   3 1 4 2 1 1 4 7 3 7 6 3 3 2 2 2 1 3 4 4 1 5 8 14 9 8 7 2 8 6
Bolivia 1 2 1 1 1 1     1 6 3 6 6 3 2 2 1 1 1 2 2 2               1 2 1 1 2 2     1 1 1 3 2
Bosnia and Herzegovina                                                                   1 1 1       2 1  
Brazil 33 35 30 29 22 30 51 46 43 44 64 51 51 72 72 53 66 70 57 62 78 68 62 71 111 88 124 112 105 156 115 145 134 165 186 220 219 243 259 287 295 341
British West Indies 2 2 6 3 9 14 1 16     20                                                              
British Virgin Islands                                 1 1   1 1       1     1 1 1   2 1 3 2 4 8 6 11 12 6 7
Brunei Darussalam                                 1     1         2                 1     1 2        
Bulgaria 7 7 11 10 27 16 20 28 35 37 51 70 40 48 36 40 30 37 39 22 40 41 32 42 30 31 11 7 3 4 6 5 4 3 11 18 13 8 10 105 58 47
Burma                     1 2 1 1             1   1   1 1                                
Cameroon         1                                                                     1 1 3
Canada 1,695 1,323 1,456 1,558 1,707 1,843 2,025 1,966 2,095 2,191 2,127 2,237 2,192 2,050 2,061 1,969 2,202 2,138 1,995 2,273 2,270 2,438 2,791 3,046 3,425 3,511 3,641 3,761 3,910 4,255 4,745 4,443 4,694 5,689 6,149 6,809 7,221 7,375 7,750 8,202 8,638 9,652
Cayman Islands                                   1       2 1 3 1 3 2 1 1   5 11 5 1 7 1 4 3 4 2 3 3
Ceylon   1               2 2                                                              
Central America 2                                                                                  
Chad                                                                                   1
Chile 5 13 7 6 10 6 9 4 6 10 5 7 7 8 7 8 11 6 3 11 7 16 2 4 11 13 12 12 11 11 10 23 17 17 16 24 23 38 33 51 55 76
Taiwan 8 16 13 3 19 27 28 40 66 102 113 127 174 243 262 367 394 509 530 601 760 959 1,182 1,246 1,507 2,035 2,252 2,667 2,874 3,560 4,054 4,766 5,492 7,412 9,411 9,046 11,086 12,488 13,786 15,057 16,617 19,301
China (People's Republic)                       9 9 6 15 7 10 5 12 18 24 112 83 122 112 111 126 129 135 100 144 142 117 181 257 469 626 888 1,034 1,655 2,127 3,768
China, Republic of                     12                                                              
Cocos Islands                                               1                                    
Colombia 5 6 6 1 9 4   10 4 14 10 15 19 6 6 9 6 10 6 4 6 5 6 3 5 10 5 13 3 18 19 10 6 12 20 21 29 16 20 20 11 21
Comoros                                                     1                              
Congo                   55 11   2   1                                                      
Congo (Brazzaville)   1     1                                                                          
Cook Islands                                                           1                        
Costa Rica 1 1 2 1 2     2 1 2 1 2 6   7 6   2 2 2 5   1 3 1 4 2 1 8 12 7 4 6 13 8 16 3 8 11 9 32 17
Croatia                                                         6 9 15 16 20 20 12 21 21 16 24 38 32 34
Cuba     2   1 2       2 5 1 3 4 3 2 1 2 1 1 3 2 1 2   1 5 6 4 2 3 5 4 6 9 15 13 7 6 12 13 14
Cyprus 1                     2 1 1 1 1   1   1 1   4 3 3   2 6 2 1 1   3   3 7 4 3 10 9 11 13
Czech Republic                                                         1 15 14 17 30 34 30 52 77 58 61 69 81 115
Czechoslovakia 186 180 160 174 218 134 166 169 167 173 142 136 92 88 80 90 82 77 74 84 68 63 50 72 71 39 32 41 26 13 22 13 10 19 16              
Denmark 165 172 168 195 221 211 275 241 251 250 242 219 250 287 223 217 243 277 280 278 282 302 316 337 284 370 358 378 376 445 618 496 634 748 863 859 1,113 1,065 1,002 923 997 1,165
Dominica                                                                     1 1            
Dominican Republic                 1 1 1 2   1 2 3 1 2   2 1 3 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 3 1 3 4   3 1 4 5 5 5 6
Ecuador   1     1     3 4 3 2 2 4 4   2 1   1 1 3 1 2 1 3 4 2 1 6   2 3 5 4 4 6 5 8 11 5 6 10
Egypt             1 6 2 6 3   2 5 5 3 4 3   3 2 3 4 2 4 3 4 10 4 6 2 2 10 11 16 20 16 11 12 19 19 20
El Salvador (4)     5   3       1 4 3 4 4 2   1   1 1 2 1 1 1               2   1   1 2 3 1   1    
Estonia                                                         2 2     2 3 6 4 10 6 7 9 17 13
Ethiopia   1     2 1                                                   1               1   1
European Patent Office (5)                                 1   2 1   2                                        
Falkland Islands                                                       1                            
Fiji                                                                 1 1 3   3 1   1    
Finland 44 52 73 94 103 125 154 159 176 178 173 184 203 228 231 258 275 300 346 363 399 350 430 417 513 595 592 576 568 707 745 836 891 970 1,376 1,530 1,840 1,811 1,935 2,096 2,032 2,383
France 2,238 2,174 2,385 2,522 2,821 2,625 2,987 3,122 3,197 3,157 3,048 3,005 3,007 3,257 3,127 3,331 3,237 3,336 3,213 3,507 3,605 3,884 3,837 4,301 4,268 4,771 4,723 4,828 4,320 4,528 5,001 4,486 4,759 5,249 6,216 6,623 6,852 6,825 6,603 6,813 6,972 7,176
French Guiana                                                           1                        
French Polynesia                                                               1       2       1