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 Compendium Of Patent Statistics 2005

 

The Compendium of Patent Statistics 2005 provides the latest available internationally comparable data on patents. Patent indicators presented in this publication are specifically designed to reflect recent trends in innovative activities across a wide range of OECD member and non-member countries.

Patent-based statistics reflect the inventive performance of countries, regions, firms, as well as other aspects of the dynamics of the innovation process (e.g. co-operation in innovation or technology paths). Patent indicators, along with other science and technology indicators, thus contribute to our understanding of the innovation system and factors that support economic growth. For example, using the inventors’ address, indicators can be developed to monitor the internationalisation of and international
collaboration in science and technology (S&T) activities.

The results presented in this document reflect the efforts of the OECD and its task force on patent statistics to improve the quality and availability of patent statistics for researchers and policy makers. The focus of OECD work in this area is not only limited to the development of patent indicators; efforts are also made to develop methodologies and guidelines for compiling and interpreting patent indicators, and to improve accessibility of such information for users. Statistics reported in this publication differs from data published in other sources, such as patent office data. This is mainly due to methodology. OECD’s patent indicators are designed to reflect inventive activity, whereas patent data reported in annual reports of patent offices (e.g. EPO, JPO, USPTO, etc.) are designed to reflect their patenting activity and are primarily for administrative purposes (e.g. budget planning). Therefore, the data reported here should not be compared with those published by patent offices.

The 2005 edition is the third edition in an annual series. With each edition, a continued effort is made to provide new or improved patent indicators for international comparisons. The 2005 edition includes 10 new indicators on internationalisation of innovation and the level of innovation in specific technology areas (as measured by patenting). The electronic version of this document, together with Excel spreadsheets containing the data used in charts and graphs, is available (free of charge) on the OECD patent

 

statistics Web site: www.oecd.org/sti/ipr-statistics

 

The OECD’s patent statistics work is conducted in close co-operation with the members of the task force on patent statistics. The task force is managed by the OECD and includes representatives from the European Commission (EC), the European Patent Office (EPO), the Japanese Patent Office (JPO), the US National Science Foundation (NSF), the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). This work has greatly benefited from support of those institutions.

This edition was prepared by Hélène Dernis and Mosahid Khan of the OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry. Dirk Pilat, Colin Webb and Dominique Guellec offered comments and suggestions on the draft.