Resident applicants accounted for 2.7 million filings and non-resident applicants for about 1 million. Applicants in China, India, the Republic of Korea and Japan were the main sources of the increase.
These are patent applications, not grants or commercialized inventions. WIPO’s global comparison classifies activity by the first named applicant’s residence.
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Worldwide patent applications
3.7 million applications
2024 · Observed
Year-on-year change
4.9 percent
2024 · Observed
Resident filings
2.7 million applications
2024 · Observed
Methodology
WIPO tabulates applications by the residence of the first named applicant; published totals in millions are rounded.
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