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High income OECD countries Compared by Economy > Innovation > Patent applications, nonresidents per million

DEFINITION: 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. Figures expressed per million population for the same year.

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# COUNTRY AMOUNT DATE GRAPH HISTORY
1 New Zealand 1,068.74 2011
2 Australia 1,036.69 2011
3 Canada 880.32 2011
4 South Korea 821.43 2011
5 United States 821.06 2011
6 Israel 711.57 2011
7 Japan 430.54 2011
8 Germany 152.3 2011
9 Chile 141.72 2011
10 Norway 132.04 2011
11 United Kingdom 110.21 2011
12 Luxembourg 82.96 2011
13 Iceland 65.83 2011
14 Switzerland 56.37 2011
15 Sweden 35.66 2011
16 Denmark 35.36 2011
17 Austria 32.76 2011
18 France 32.11 2011
19 Finland 23.01 2011
20 Netherlands 18.57 2011
21 Italy 15.27 2011
22 Ireland 14.64 2011
23 Belgium 11.5 2011
24 Estonia 11.19 2011
25 Czech Republic 9.24 2011
26 Portugal 7.1 2011
27 Poland 6.33 2011
28 Slovakia 6.11 2011
29 Slovenia 5.37 2010
30 Spain 4.24 2011
31 Greece 1.41 2010

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