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Intellectual property rights have been high on the policy agenda in recent years. Understanding the evolution and use of the patent system is critical to understanding policy debates, including the role of intellectual property in economic growth and development, and the relationship between IP policy and key public policy concerns, such as health and the environment, and for developing initiatives to improve the efficiency of the patent system itself.

 

This report provides readers with statistical indicators that shed light on issues such as the functioning of the patent system and its use by both developed and developing countries. The statistical information provided in this report allows users to analyze and monitor the latest trends in patent activity based on objective and detailed information.

 

The World Patent Report: A Statistical Review is an annual publication and the 2008 edition is the third edition in the series. There is a continuing effort at WIPO to improve statistical information on patent activity covering as many countries as possible across the world and to develop and provide new indicators that are relevant to current policy issues.

 

The report contains a wide range of indicators, some of which are published for the first time in the 2008 edition, covering areas such as:

 

* Patent filings and grants by offices and countries of origin with the aim of providing an overview of the level of patent activity across the world.

* Patent statistics by field of technology which highlight and identify key / emerging technologies.

* Use of utility models as an alternative to patents for protecting intellectual property rights.
International filings through the Patent Cooperation Treaty, indicating the level of internationalization of technologies.

* Use of the patent system in emerging countries.

* Processing of patent applications, including pendency volume and time, which highlight the challenges faced by patent offices with rapidly increasing numbers of patent filings.

 

* Opposition and invalidation.

* Cost of patenting.

 

All statistics included in this report and additional data (i.e. longer time series and more countries / patent offices) are available for download from WIPO’s statistics website: www.wipo.int/ipstats/en/statistics/.

 

This report was prepared by Mosahid Khan, Ryan Lamb, Bruno Le Feuvre, William Meredith, Catherine Calais Regnier, Alex Riechel, and Hao Zhou of the Patent Information and IP Statistics Service of the World Intellectual Property Organization.

 

We would like to thank the many National and Regional Intellectual Property Offices that shared their statistics with WIPO, without the contribution of which this report would not have been possible.

 

Francis GURRY
Deputy Director General

 

 

 

HIGHLIGHTS................ 7

METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION................ 10

TOTAL PATENT FILINGS ................13
  A.1.1. Total Patent Filings ................13
  A.1.2. Patent Filings By Patent Office................ 14
  A.1.3. Patent Filings by Country of Origin................ 16

 

PATENT FAMILIES ................17
  A.2.1. Patent Families................ 17
  A.2.2. Patent Families by Origin and Destination................ 19

TOTAL PATENT GRANTS................ 20
  A.3.1. Total Patent Grants................ 20
  A.3.2. Total Patent Grants By Patent Office................ 21
  A.3.3. Total Patent Grants by Country of Origin................ 22

 

PATENTS IN FORCE................ 23
  A.4.1. Patents in Force................ 23
  A.4.2. Age Profile of Patents in Force................ 24

UTILITY MODELS................ 25
  A.5.1. Utility Model Filings................ 25
  A.5.2. Utility Model Grants................ 26

 

RESIDENT PATENT ACTIVITY................ 27
  B.1.1. Resident Patent Filings................ 27
  B.1.2. Resident Patent Filings by Country of Origin................ 28
  B.2.1. Resident Patent Grants................ 29
  B.2.2. Resident Patent Grants by Country of Origin................ 30

NON-RESIDENT PATENT ACTIVITY................ 31
  C.1.1. Non-Resident Patent Filings................ 31
  C.1.2. Non-Resident Patent Filings By Country of Origin................ 32
  C.1.3. European Regional Filings by Office................ 33
  C.2.1. Non-Resident Patent Grants................ 34
  C.2.2. Non-Resident Patent Grants By Country of Origin................ 35

 

INTERNATIONAL FILINGS THROUGH THE PATENT COOPERATION TREATY....... 36
  D.1.1. International Filings through the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)................ 36
  D.1.2. Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT): PCT International Filings by Ownership Type ....37
  D.1.3. Non-Resident Filings by Filing Route................ 38

PATENT ACTIVITY IN SELECTED EMERGING COUNTRIES................ 39
  E.1.1. Patent Filings in Selected Emerging Countries................ 39
  E.2.1. Patents Granted in Selected Emerging Countries................ 40

 

PATENT ACTIVITY BY FIELD OF TECHNOLOGY................ 41
  F.1. Patent Filings by Field of Technology................ 41
  F.2. Foreign-Oriented Patent Families by Field of Technology and Origin................ 42
  F.3. Relative Specialization Index (RSI) of Foreign-Oriented Patent Families by Origin....... 43
  F.4. Patent Filings in Energy Technology................ 44

 

PATENT INTENSITY................ 45
  G.1.1. Resident Patent Filings per Gross Domestic Product ................45
  G.1.2. Resident Patent Filings per Million Population ................46
  G.1.3. Resident Patent Filings per Research and Development Expenditure................ 47
  G.1.4. Trends in Resident Patent Filings per Research and Development Expenditure..... 48

PATENT PROCESSING ACTIVITY ................49
  H.1. Patent Processing Activity................ 49

STATISTICS ON OPPOSITION AND INVALIDATION ................50
  I.1. Statistics on Opposition and Invalidation by Patent Office................ 50

 

COST OF PATENTING ................51
  J. Cost of Patenting................ 51

ANNEX A ................53
  Top PCT Applicants

 

ANNEX B................ 54
  IPC and Technology Concordance Table

ANNEX C................ 56
  Relative Specialization Index (RSI) of Foreign-Oriented Patent Families by Origin

 

ANNEX D................ 58
  Cost of Patenting Methodology

GLOSSARY ................59

STATISTICAL TABLES................ 62